Peter wrote:stuka wrote:Peter wrote:
The debate is whether that preferred practice is actually a Buddhist practice.
If this is so, Peter, then which "preferred practice" are you claiming is "not actually a Buddhist practice"?
The practice of adopting the view that there is no rebirth, no heavens and hells, no people who have seen the truth of these things firsthand. In other words, the practice of adopting wrong view.
No one here has declared a "no-rebirth" view, or has declared that "there are no heavens and hells", or has declared that "there are no people who have seen the truth of these things firsthand". Your assertion, again, seems to be an irrelevant Straw Man.
That being said, the Buddha, in the Maha Cattarisaka Sutta you seem to refer to, does not specifically declare the views "there is no
rebirth", and "there are no
heavens and hells" to be wrong view. You will find that the nomenclature in the MCS is quite different from your eisegesis here. Both of the aforementioned are, however, speculative views, of course.