Posted by: vishontar August 17, 2006
Nepe's book on the web
Login in to Rate this Post:     0       ?        
However, the rest couldn’t understand you well. They said “Walking is walking dude no matter whether it is random or unidirectional! You walked in one direction and we walked in many direction. What’s your point? If walking leads to the entrance we could also have found the entrance. If walking doesn’t lead to the entrance you also haven’t found the entrance.” You couldn’t convince them the difference between random walking and unidirectional walking because they were very form on their logic. I made up this story to clarify things. You are a scientist and very intellectual person; I respect you. However, in this situation, your logic is the same as those of third type of random walkers. Your logic: if enlightenment comes from abandoning desires, desire for enlightenment is also a desire and Buddha was not enlightened because he had desire for enlightenment. We have many desires and he had one desire. What is his point? Sounds same as: If entrance can be reached by abandoning walk, you shouldn’t also have reached the entrance because you also have walked. We walked in many directions but you walked in one direction. What is your point?” See how wisely you have discovered the entrance. See, how logically you have explained how you discovered the entrance. See, how scientific is the way of your discovery. But, people can not understand, they hold few words like "walk" and never try the right thing as you are holding the word Desire and turing your back to sublime teaching of Buddha. In very true sense your question has very deep meaning. It sounds misleading but it is not. You are a scientist; you should explore the entire field of Buddha’s teaching; before abandoning it. You should have explored it and found out the meaning and reason of abandoning worldly desires. You didn’t do that, you hold one sentence which sounded illogical to you and abandon the path. This is more illogical instead. You didn't do justice with the sublime teaching. Since your question is very deep, I have to write more on this. I have to connect the sentence you are holding to its roots to give it an identity. On this course I may write my understanding of Buddha’s teaching in your language, ie, the language of science :). Finally I will end my postings by writing review on your book.
Read Full Discussion Thread for this article