On 12/31/2013 10:35 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Back to the usual clap-trap. > Without enlightenment, there's no Buddha. Without Buddha, there's no Buddhism. You're not even making any sense, Bill.
The historical Buddha wrote nothing, and the language that he spoke is no longer extant. This being the case, a person such as yourself could hardly know what the Buddha taught about much of anything about ay secret doctrines. Apparently you can't even understand any Tibetan. Go figure. However, based on the research of learned scholars such as Robert Thurman, we can infer that the Buddha maintained a strict silence on the matters of the first cause. Not for nothing did they call the Buddha the Shakya the Muni, "the silent sage" of the Shakya clan. It's just not enough to declare all the historians to be "clap-trap". You've got to at least makes sense if you are going to participate in a discussion about the historical Buddha.
