Coëmgenu wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 9:31 pm
Venerable Sujato correctly addressed your concerns five years ago.
It is best for Buddhists to not engage in false speech.
Sujato answered a question on his own authoritarians forum that bans people who disagree with him. Obviously, his ideas were not debated by the questioner.
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There is always an official executioner. If you try to take his place, It is like trying to be a master carpenter and cutting wood. If you try to cut wood like a master carpenter, you will only hurt your hand.
DooDoot wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 9:32 pmIt is best for Buddhists to not engage in false speech.
Agreed! Now that this "The Buddha did not teach rebirth" nonsense is finished, the thread can continue without you grilling the confused layman over your lack of belief.
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What is the Uncreated?
Sublime & free, what is that obscured Eternity?
It is the Undying, the Bright, the Isle.
It is an Ocean, a Secret: Reality.
Both life and oblivion, it is Nirvāṇa.
Coëmgenu wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 9:33 pm
Agreed! Now that this "The Buddha did not teach rebirth" nonsense is finished, the thread can continue without you grilling the confused layman over your lack of belief.
It is best for Buddhists to not engage in false speech.
Sujato answered a question on his own authoritarian forum that bans people who strongly disagree with & refute him. Obviously, his ideas were not debated by the questioner.
Your post is more nonsense.
Sujato does not understand the suttas. Some of his translations are utterly ridiculous.
There is always an official executioner. If you try to take his place, It is like trying to be a master carpenter and cutting wood. If you try to cut wood like a master carpenter, you will only hurt your hand.
If you aren't finished this and you still want to push the issue after 5+ years of being corrected by various others, not just Ven Sujato, then I don't think that complaining about the forum culture of SuttaCentral and bemoaning its alleged authoritarianism is the best way to go about it.
What is the Uncreated?
Sublime & free, what is that obscured Eternity?
It is the Undying, the Bright, the Isle.
It is an Ocean, a Secret: Reality.
Both life and oblivion, it is Nirvāṇa.
Coëmgenu wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 9:33 pm
Agreed! Now that this "The Buddha did not teach rebirth" nonsense is finished"
The Buddha appeared to not teach the type of "rebirth" you imagine; plus Sujato appears wrong.
There is always an official executioner. If you try to take his place, It is like trying to be a master carpenter and cutting wood. If you try to cut wood like a master carpenter, you will only hurt your hand.
Coëmgenu wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 9:36 pm
If you aren't finished this and you still want to push the issue after 5+ years of being corrected by various others, not just Ven Sujato, then I don't think that complaining about the forum culture of SuttaCentral and bemoaning its alleged authoritarianism is the best way to go about it.
Sorry but you are drifting off-topic. To reiterate:
1. Sujato remains largely unchallenged in his idiosyncratic ideas on his personal forum
2. Obviously, the questioner did not challenge Sujato but simply asked Sujato to display his terrible lack of scholarship
Now, I have requested your posts here be split off into another topic.
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There is always an official executioner. If you try to take his place, It is like trying to be a master carpenter and cutting wood. If you try to cut wood like a master carpenter, you will only hurt your hand.
DooDoot wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 9:38 pmNow, I have requested your posts here be split off into another topic.
Ah, clever move. This way, it will look like I started a thread to attack you, rather than intervening in your grilling of the confused layman. Very good.
What is the Uncreated?
Sublime & free, what is that obscured Eternity?
It is the Undying, the Bright, the Isle.
It is an Ocean, a Secret: Reality.
Both life and oblivion, it is Nirvāṇa.
Coëmgenu wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 9:40 pm
Ah, clever move. This way, it will look like I started a thread to attack you, rather than intervening in your grilling of the confused layman. Very good.
One without knowledge of True Dhamma cannot attack the True Dhamma. It is like urinating into the wind. Your Nagarjuna thread was annihilated and your Sujato thread will also be annihilated by the True Dhamma
There is always an official executioner. If you try to take his place, It is like trying to be a master carpenter and cutting wood. If you try to cut wood like a master carpenter, you will only hurt your hand.
People like to say things like "I defeat you" on the Internet.
What is the Uncreated?
Sublime & free, what is that obscured Eternity?
It is the Undying, the Bright, the Isle.
It is an Ocean, a Secret: Reality.
Both life and oblivion, it is Nirvāṇa.
For the Blessed One, O Lord, spoke these words to me: 'I shall not come to my final passing away, Evil One, until my bhikkhus and bhikkhunis, laymen and laywomen, have come to be true disciples — wise, well disciplined, apt and learned, preservers of the Dhamma, living according to the Dhamma, abiding by the appropriate conduct, and having learned the Master's word, are able to expound it, preach it, proclaim it, establish it, reveal it, explain it in detail, and make it clear; until, when adverse opinions arise, they shall be able to refute them thoroughly and well, and to preach this convincing and liberating Dhamma.'
There is always an official executioner. If you try to take his place, It is like trying to be a master carpenter and cutting wood. If you try to cut wood like a master carpenter, you will only hurt your hand.
I'm sure that you think your refutations are very thorough, Doot. I'm sure that when you read that passage, something inside beams and says, "Gee! That's me!" or something of the like. Does that mean it is true?
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What is the Uncreated?
Sublime & free, what is that obscured Eternity?
It is the Undying, the Bright, the Isle.
It is an Ocean, a Secret: Reality.
Both life and oblivion, it is Nirvāṇa.
Let the good sirs come; and let those who are of noble, priestly and royal families, bringing an upper piece of fire-stick of teak or sāl or of a sweet-scented tree or of sandal or lotus, light a fire and get it to produce heat.
It is impossible a disagreeable result could be produced from good conduct....
AN 1.287
There is always an official executioner. If you try to take his place, It is like trying to be a master carpenter and cutting wood. If you try to cut wood like a master carpenter, you will only hurt your hand.
Is your refutation "thorough" yet? I don't want to start before you are finished. I like to take my time on these threads, so I of course extend the courtesy of not rushing others.
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What is the Uncreated?
Sublime & free, what is that obscured Eternity?
It is the Undying, the Bright, the Isle.
It is an Ocean, a Secret: Reality.
Both life and oblivion, it is Nirvāṇa.
A person should not use a monk to support their unsubstantiated ideas because this brings disrepute & humiliation upon the monk due to the person's own person negligence and kamma.
When true Buddhists ask Sujato questions on his own forum, they do not wish to humiliate and embarrass him by refuting him.
In summary:
1. The questioner on SC practised good karma by not refuting Sujato on his own forum
2. A non-Buddhist troll on another forum that uses Sujato to defend their unlearned views commits double bad kamma by not relying on their own learning and subjecting a bhikkhu with his own sect of followers to humiliation.
There is always an official executioner. If you try to take his place, It is like trying to be a master carpenter and cutting wood. If you try to cut wood like a master carpenter, you will only hurt your hand.
Coëmgenu wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 9:53 pm
If your refutation "thorough" yet? I don't want to start before you are finished. I like to take my time on these threads, so I of course extend the courtesy of not rushing others.
Are you asking for more punishment?
Bhikkhu Bodhi MN 96 footnote: 'attabhāvassa abhinibbatti' literally should be: "wherever the reconception of his individuality takes place".
Since when was the "eye" subject to "reincarnation"?
Yo kho, bhikkhave, cakkhussa uppādo ṭhiti abhinibbatti pātubhāvo, dukkhasseso uppādo...
The continued arising, production , manifestation and acquisition in respect to the eye is the arising of suffering.
SN 26.1
Refuting Sujato is child's play because not even the mainstream translators agree with his infantile ideas.
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There is always an official executioner. If you try to take his place, It is like trying to be a master carpenter and cutting wood. If you try to cut wood like a master carpenter, you will only hurt your hand.