[Buddha-l] Re: Jesus is Buddha?

[Gad Horowitz]

what can you mean by "relativism is relative, just a tool"? I understand
that there is no such thing as Emptiness in itself,  that it is emptiness
which allows things to sort of exist...do you mean to say more?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Benito Carral" <bcarral at kungzhi.org>
To: "Buddhist discussion forum" <buddha-l at mailman.swcp.com>
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 11:53 AM
Subject: [Buddha-l] Re: Jesus is Buddha?


> On Monday, January 23, 2006, Dante Rosati wrote:
>
> > Could one be clearheaded enough to follow Nagarjuna's
> > arguments, and then put on an SS uniform to go party?
>
>    When  I  read  you, a verse came to my mind that the
> Baptist  pastor  of  the  church  I  attended yesterday
> reminded  for  us  who were present: "Knowledge puffeth
> up, but charity edifieth" (1 Corinthians 8:1).
>
>    I  think  that  Naagaarjuna is both a powerful and a
> dangerous tool. He taught radical relativism, but as he
> also  reminded us, relativism is relative, just a word,
> just a tool. Nowdays I see many people playing with the
> first  teaching and forgetting the second one--the sign
> of   our   times,   I   suppose.  Maybe  Lindtner  took
> Naagaarjuna  too seriously (and the traditional Buddha,
> I don't know about others, already warned about that).
>
>    Best wishes,
>
>    Beni
>
>
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