[talk.religion.misc] Fundamental Flaw

muttiah@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Ranjan S Muttiah) (12/19/90)

In article <1990Dec18.004932.9293@nas.nasa.gov> david@star2.cm.utexas.edu (David Sigeti) writes:
>The notion that Buddhism teaches that suffering, or other aspects of
>observable reality, are "illusions" is a very serious (but very
>common) misreading of Buddhist teaching.  It seems to arise in part
>from a confusion of Buddhism with certain forms of Brahminism.  For
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Making it look at though there wasn't a natural progression from one
to another ;-).

> [Summarizing the post]
>This is worth repeating: WE ARE NOT WHAT WE THINK WE ARE [*].

Great.  A fundamental flaw in this whole thread:

	If buddhism teaches the method (i.e., some way of thinking) of 
	realizing this [*] then when we reach that stage we will realize that
	the method of that attainment was flawed.

	QED.