Yes, but this time, I'd be one of the scribes! Don't worry, I'd send all my friends here on DW a private message telling them exactly how it is...binocular wrote:Which seems to be what pretty much happened anyway. We're back to relying on the scribes ...Sam Vara wrote:Probably not, so I'd ask him to dictate and then make his mark.clw_uk wrote:Was Buddha literate though?
If you could meet the Buddha
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Mind if I tape your dhamma talks?clw_uk wrote:If a time machine were invented and you could meet the Buddha one on one, face to face, yet were only able to ask him one question, what would you ask?
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Why not? Do you have it all figured out? Or is it that you trust the texts? If so, how do you know for sure they are all correct?binocular wrote:I've been thinking about this for years. I don't have any questions anymore that I would ask the Buddha were I to meet him.clw_uk wrote:If a time machine were invented and you could meet the Buddha one on one, face to face, yet were only able to ask him one question, what would you ask?
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Easy: may I go forth under this doctrine and discipline?
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I wouldn't ask him anything because I've become too jaded and too cynical.David N. Snyder wrote:Why not? Do you have it all figured out? Or is it that you trust the texts? If so, how do you know for sure they are all correct?binocular wrote:I've been thinking about this for years. I don't have any questions anymore that I would ask the Buddha were I to meet him.
That's what I get for hanging out with Buddhists!
Hic Rhodus, hic salta!
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Don't worry, it's just a phase.binocular wrote:I wouldn't ask him anything because I've become too jaded and too cynical.
That's what I get for hanging out with Buddhists!
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Spiny Norman wrote:Don't worry, it's just a phase.binocular wrote:I wouldn't ask him anything because I've become too jaded and too cynical.
That's what I get for hanging out with Buddhists!
...and one can always turn off one's internet device if one doesn't actually socialise with Buddhists in "meat space" !
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That, however, doesn't solve the problem, as the effects of association with certain people reverberates in one's life, in one way or another, for a long time after the actual meeting; reverberates in the form of new questions, doubts, prospects that yet need to be addressed or resolved.Aloka wrote:...and one can always turn off one's internet device if one doesn't actually socialise with Buddhists in "meat space" !
Hic Rhodus, hic salta!
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Kill him of course!
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That's not a question!Alexander____ wrote:Kill him of course!
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