On 3/11/2013 9:32 AM, MarshaV wrote:
RMP: "When early Western investigators first read the Buddhist texts they too interpreted nirvana as some kind of suicide."
A lot of it goes back to that terrible mistranslation of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dukkha as "suffering.". That introduced a dry-hair, scratchy-shirt Puritanism we see in American Buddhism to this day.
The Noble Truth is more like, "Like gets out of joint / doesn't run smoothly."
The relation to ZMM and Lila - both of which have to do with smooth/unsmooth running - is obvious.
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