Blasphemy (WAS impermanence)

From: Alex Ramonsky (alex@ramonsky.com)
Date: Mon Jul 22 2002 - 02:29:45 MDT


I thought the buddha died of food poisoning? ...Wouldn't his last words
be more along the lines of "Anybody got any codeine phosphate?"

Entropyfoe@aol.com wrote:

>I believe that the last words of the Buddha were something like this. "Decay
>is inherent in all compounded things. Work out your own salvation with
>diligence".
>Your analogy of Pi, shows that Pi is not a compounded thing, but is One...
>argh.. now comes the Platonist stuff ... ;-}
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>-Jay
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>Mike Perry wrote....
>So there are things that can be considered "permanent" in a
>way that appears to contradict a central tenet of Buddhism. One reason I am
>not a Buddhist, even though, like many others, I do have respect for many
>of its features.
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