[Buddha-l] Re: The Buddha, an 'emotional weakling'? What are the "joys of living"?

[Stefan Detrez]

Benito,

2006/6/23, Benito Carral <bcarral at kungzhi.org>:
>
> On Friday, June 23, 2006, Stefan wrote:
>
> > Would  you  tell your kid - if you had one -, when it
> > says it wants an ice cream, that 'it better beware of
> > the  afflictions  rising  as a consequence of a to be
> > rooted out lust, when yearning for an ice cream?
>
>    This  reminded  me of Plum Village. I don't know how
> it  is nowadays, but when I was practicing there, there
> was  a Thây's picture on the refrigerator where candies
> were stored, in the small store at the Upper Hamlet. It
> was  a  signal  that everyone there understood as, "You
> can  buy  candies if you wish, but are you sure that it
> would be a wholesome act? Be aware!"
>

My golly. You sound like some sort of Born Again Buddhist: fanatically
attached to precepts, yet too ignorant to become released from them.

Stefan
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