[Buddha-l] Buddhas Meditation

Dan Lusthaus vasubandhu at earthlink.net
Fri Jul 8 08:13:18 MDT 2011


Well said, Joanna.

Dan

> OK . But as a statement it elides the empirical fact that not all
> vegetarians are "attached" to being vegetarian, just as all meat
> eaters are "not non-attached" when they are eating it.  Thus, I
> don't see it as a valid empirical statement, even if it is a
> relative statement value-wise. I considered the statement humbug
> from an empirical viewpoint. 
> 
> However, no person or practice was denigrated as inferior.
> Instead, a statement was characterised as nonsense. Nothing
> foolish or (name your negative descriptor) was attributed either
> to a person or to a practice. 

[...]

> Joanna



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