[MD] Horse, Is this proper conduct?

[Michael R. Brown]

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.


MRB