[Buddha-l] An uplifting play on Kipling's poem, IF

Alex Wilding alex at chagchen.org
Fri Feb 12 00:29:50 MST 2010


W.F. Wong retorted:
> How would Mr. Anonymous know what spiritual
> development my dog is at?
Space echoes back: having Buddha nature is not a development. It is
inherent, just accidentally stained.

Me: If you knew my dog you wouldn't have any doubts anyway.
                                    
All the best
Alex Wilding


> -----Original Message-----
> From: buddha-l-bounces at mailman.swcp.com [mailto:buddha-l-
> bounces at mailman.swcp.com] On Behalf Of Weng-Fai Wong
> Sent: Friday, 12 February 2010 5:51 PM
> To: 'Buddhist discussion forum'
> Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] An uplifting play on Kipling's poem, IF
> 
> The Chuang Tzu retort: and how would Mr. Anonymous know what spiritual
> development my dog is at?
> 
W.F. Wong
> 
> >                         If you can live without caffeine or
> > nicotine;
(snip)
> >
> >                         -- then you have almost reached the same
> > level of spiritual development as your dog.
> >
> >                         Because dogs have Buddha nature .
> >
> >
> >
> >                         ANONYMOUS
> >




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