[Buddha-l] new sarvaastivaada

[Erik Hoogcarspel]

Richard Hayes schreef:
> On Oct 21, 2009, at 10:11 AM, Erik Hoogcarspel wrote:
>
> The Sarvāstivāda theory makes a certain amount of sense. 
That's why I'm glad that physics at last endorses it. Before it only was 
tacitly accepted in the science fiction idea of time travel.
>
> I personally think the Sarvāstivāda theory is the only rational  
> account for the well-known phenomenon that both Elvis and Michael  
> Jackson still live. It also explains how Barack Obama got the Nobel  
> peace prize for something he has not yet done to deserve it. And it  
> explains how during the McCarthy era in the 1950s, Hollywood  
> personalities had their careers destroyed because of Communists they  
> had had lunch with in the 1920s.
>   
Perhaps all these facts are better explained by conspiracyt heories. And 
it's a well established fact that if you've lunch with acommunist, 
you're going Dutch.
>> The science article about the Higgs particle is about
>> the idea that it can influence it's being discovered from the future.
>>     
>
> This also makes perfect sense. If a particle is not getting the  
> acknowledgement it deserves from scientists, it really has no choice  
> but to come out of the future and makes its presence known.
>
>   
>>  Mickey Mouse
>> cannot cause anything, not from the future nor from the past.
>>     
>
> Erik, how can you say such a thing? Mickey Mouse (with a little help  
> from Goofy and Pluto) caused Walt Disney to become a millionaire. You  
> see, sarvam really is asti, just as the vādins said.
>   
Sorry, I missed that volume. You see, I had a neglected childhood, my 
parents were not subscribed to the Donald Duck.
> Verstehen is for Prussians. Real men prefer begrijpen. But I guess I  
> shouldn't be gripin' so much, eh?
>   
Well Verstehen has the verb 'stehen' which means to stand. Perfectly 
suited to sarvāstivādin philosophy. On the other hand begrijpen contains 
'grijpen', which is 'to take hold of' and that would suit a Buddhistic 
appraoch. Take your pick.
I just spent a few days in the country of Verstehen, so give me a few 
days to regain my manhood.


cheers
time and again

eriki