[MD] Static Patterns Rock!

[MarshaV]

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:  
There were are 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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