Posted: Feb 28, 2012 4:44 pm
james1v wrote:paarsurrey wrote:The Sermon at Benares
Chapter 16:4-15
The Tathagata has found the middle path. [4]
"A middle path, O bhikkhus,
avoiding the two extremes, discovered by the Tathagata -
a path which opens the eyes, and bestowes understanding,
which leads to peace of mind, to the higher wisdom,
to full enlightenment, to Nirvana! [9]
"Let me teach you, O bhikkhus, the middle path,
which keeps aloof from both extremes.
. . . . . . .
[11]
http://reluctant-messenger.com/gospel_b ... ter_16.htm
If the Buddhists or the Buddhist clergy leave the middle path or the moderate one and go to extremes unauthorized; why Buddha should be blamed for it? It is not his teaching they are following.
It would just be like a Medical Doctor prescribes a medicine not to be taken orally; yet the patient takes it orally and suffers.
Will it be reasonable to blame the Doctor?
My large...
I think someones orating, from the place made for a suppository.
I don't get you. Please