joe... i actually do not object..there are the 10 commandments in the bible for instance... so be it buddhism...
bullshit you can experience the buddha nature just by sitting.. i don't believe you bill!... merle Joe, I object. Any characterizations like The Eightfold Path, the Five (or Eight or Ten) Precepts, the Ten Commandments, the Four Bodhisattva Vows, Three French Hens, Two Turtle Doves or a single Partridge in a Pear tree are just gobbledygook to me. Who took a Path and divided it up into eight parts? WTF? Just sit (zazen) and experience Buddha Nature. Then you won't need all these lists someone else made up. You'll know for yourself. ...Bill! --- In [email protected], "Joe" <desert_woodworker@...> wrote: > > Mike, > > Well, you've given me something to think about, there. Thanks. > > Because, in fact, my sometime-claim here has been that the Ten Grave Precepts > are the behavior of a Buddha, an awakened person. Not the Noble Eightfold > Path. But, err-r, let me THINK about that. > > I'd say it is probably a description of the behavior of a Buddha, also -- and > I have never thought in this way before, so THANKS! -- AND, as you say here, > Mike, it is a prescription for the undoing of suffering caused by attachment. > In this way, I feel that the "NEP" is more prescriptive and normative than > the Precepts are, and that they are and were meant to be. I still feel that > the Precepts are more descriptive, even though they may at first reading(s) > look like a list of "Thou Shalt not" injunctions. > > But the Noble Eightfold Path as a description of the behavior of a Buddha... > . That's GOOD. Well, I'm not sure why not! Does anybody object? > > I'll sleep on it, too, and see how it looks in the morning light. > > --Joe > > > uerusuboyo@ wrote: > > > > Although Joe is correct that the NEP describes the action of a Buddha, it > > is also useful as a guide to ethical and wise living. >
