see my comments interlaced below --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did MMY discuss this fundamental disconnect in his lecture Nabby? > > Nabby's an idiot who knows nothing about Buddhism > or Buddha >>
And that is the voice of Buddha above? You really sound like someone who knows about Buddha.....NOT. > > Buddha was about as much of an opponent of Hinduism > and the entire Vedic system with its paid-for priests > and yagyas as one could possibly be. *During* his > lifetime the Hindus hated him, because the common > people were being drawn to his "you don't need to > pay no priests to get enlightened" teachings.>> Buddha abandoned his pregnant wife to go off and 'save the world' - that failed obviously. He rebelled against the Brahmin tradition and then went and reconstructed it in an inferior, ego-centered version (ie...its all about "me me me getting enlightened"....and forget the real world -- total BS tradition) > > So the minute he died, what do they do? They co-opt > Buddha and claim that all along he was an avatar of > Vishnu. They claim that he was the *opposite* of > everything he claimed to be, so that they can try > to suck some of the folks who went over to Buddhist > teachings back over to Hindu teachings, and to fill- > ing their greedy pockets. True, that is what his followers did. > > Buddha went out of his way -- his whole *life* -- to > point out that he was *not* an avatar, that he was > just a normal human being, just like everyone else.>> A useless one at that, with nothing of power to offer. Now Buddhist Monks are learning TM en-masse.......'cuz it works. ( and Vaj is raging mad about them learning TM by the thousands now) > For the Hindus to claim that he *was* an avatar is > the exact opposite of what he actually taught.>> No-one claimed he was an Avatar, you made that up to bolster your ego- driven superiority-complex rantings. OffWorld .
