I wasn't talking about you at all, so your reaction is totally misplaced....
Metta,
Paul.
binocular wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2017 4:32 pmCharacter assassination again?retrofuturist wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2017 9:05 pmMaybe if their refuge is a charismatic individual, rather than the Triple Gem.
If people are so superficial, then I question what they're actually learning anyway...
Why is it that when someone begins to point at basic problems of religious epistemology, they get a barrage of replies assassinating their character?
Does any monk (or anyone else) believe that about me? I see no reason to think so. So far, they have all considered themselves the authority on what is the Dhamma and on what I am supposed to believe the Dhamma is.One need not be ordained in order to actualize the Buddha's teachings, nor to point others in their direction, or share their understandings of them.