True, it matters how we define what's valuable and what's not. The knowledge of the fact his birth place would become a destination people pilgrimage to was valuable in legitimizing this faith-invigorating act. But generally what we should consider 'valuable gnosis' is that gnosis which is universally valuable, i.e., not gnosis which is valuable to the Buddha's dispensation in particular.porpoise wrote:The Buddha made a pragmatic decision to just teach on the problem of suffering - that doesn't mean all his other realisations weren't of value.Viscid wrote:Buddhist gnosis is fundamentally pragmatic: if it is a gnosis which leads to liberation, then it's valuable.
Is there a gnostic element to the goals of Buddhism?
Re: Is there a gnostic element to the goals of Buddhism?
"What holds attention determines action." - William James