--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > <snip> > > > > In the Buddhist view, the richest, most successful > > > > person in the world, living in a perfectly-aligned > > > > S-V house but still attached to his desires, will > > > > be lost in suffering. Whereas the poor person who > > > > lives in a cardboard box, if he is not attached to > > > > his desires, is beyond suffering. > > > > > > But what if living in a perfectly aligned S-V house > > > makes it easier to break the attachment to desires? > > > > See above. The longer the primary proponent of S-V > > hides inside his S-V house, the larger his demands > > for money get and the more dire his pronouncements > > of what will happen to the world if he *doesn't* > > receive the money he's demanding get. > > > > Does this look to you as if S-V reduces either one's > > desires or the attachment to them? > > Damn. I could have *sworn* I included a disclaimer > that I wasn't saying the theory worked. Let me see... > > Yup, I did. But you seem to have deleted it from > your response:
Did you see anything in the *question* asked of you above that implies you *did* say that that the theory worked? I was asking a question to see if you'd answer instead of sitting on the fence spouting disclaimers *while* defending the theory. Guess not... :-) > > > (I'm not saying it does, just that if one is comparing > > > *views*, it's important to include that aspect of MMY's > > > view.) ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
