Andre, 

Sorry for the over-the-limit corrections.  It's the end of a long day with my 
grandson, yet he wants to play football with me playing the ball.  Such a 
cutie!   



On Oct 13, 2013, at 3:19 PM, Andre Broersen wrote:

> Marsha to Andre:
> The static world is not an illusion, the static world is like an illusion.
> 
>       All conditioned dharmas 
>       Are like dreams, illusions, bubbles, shadows, 
>       Like dew drops and a lightning flash. 
>       Contemplate them thus.
>                 (The Diamond Sutra)
> 
> 
> Andre:
> Do you believe that the atomic bombs that dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 
> were illusory?


Marsha:  
They were/are as conventionally real, as "real as rocks and trees".    


Marsha




> Marsha's answer:
> The static world is not an illusion, the static world is like an illusion.
> 
> Andre:
> Just answer the question Marsha.
> 
> I stand by my assertion of your overall behaviour here which is already 
> deplorable: you are fake!
> 
> 'The professor smiled and said yes. That was the end of the exchange. Within 
> the traditions of Indian philosophy that answer may have been correct, but 
> for Phaedrus and for anyone else who reads newspapers regularly and is 
> concerned with such things as mass destruction of human beings that answer 
> was hopelessly inadequate. He left the classroom, left India and gave up'(ZMM 
> p137)
> 
> The MoQ is NOT the Diamond Sutra Marsha. The MoQ stands on its own. You'll 
> have to come up with something better in your efforts to explore Buddhist 
> thought/tradition with the MoQ. Your pathetic, cowardly answer shows me that 
> YOU are NOT 'concerned with such things as mass destruction of human beings', 
> let alone lesser things. You are not even concerned with the MoQ.
> 
> Shame on you.





 
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