[Buddha-l] Natural Evil

[Richard Hayes]

On Sunday 29 April 2007 14:41, SJZiobro at cs.com wrote:

> > Catholics _know_ God spoke Latin. Church Latin, in fact. I speak
> > with full authority - ex cathedra so to speak - as a former
> > Catholic.
>
> Evidently He now speaks English.

As I recall the Second Vatican Council discovered that God is a polyglot 
speaking every language on earth. This feat gives God one of the qualities of 
a bodhisattva. Bodhisattvas were expected to know as many languages as 
possible to communicate the Dharma to all people in their native tongue 
rather than in the language of the educated elite. (All the known texts 
voicing these requisites for graduating with honors in bodhisattva studies 
were unaccountably written in the language of the educated elite.)

-- 
Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico