Bhante,

Once in a public talk, some asked Ajahn Brahmavamso about the differences between the
various schools of Buddhism. At one point in his insightful answer, he made this
remarks:
"There are only two kinds of Buddhism: your and mine"

No one questioned him further. So let me hazard a commentary:
I think what he meant was that everyone has their own opinion about Buddhism, but as
long as we think in terms of "I," "me" and "mine" there will always be differing
views.

The point is to look beyond self.

Let me know say my mind about anyone who leave this website (esp this one). Sure
everyone is free to come and go. First of all one need not announce that one wishes
to leave.

Uninvited one comes, uninvited one goes, so who is there to complain?

I recall once when some hooligans were verbally abusing the Buddha, and Ananda was
upset, and invited the Buddha to leave town and go to another.

What if the people there repeated the abuse, the Buddha asked.
Let's go to another, Ananda naively relied.

It does not work that way, Buddha replied, in seven days all this abuse will dies
down, he promised.

The point is there is strife everyone, even for ostriches with the head in the sand.
Unless we are in "eternal" denial.

Some have propensity for making dense remarks, which attract dense and not so dense
replies.

There are bad people because there are good people: so who is to blame.

I rather listen to the direct abusive writing than read saccharin-sweet well-meaning
but empty platitudes. I think we learn more from the latter. Perhaps we need more
training, but the wise listening ear is a good teacher.

There is much to learn from this website: no rose is without thorns.
Where is samsara can be free from the likes of Suan and me and you.
We will bump into each other again in any galaxy!
So let's enjoy each other's company and think beyond names and naming.

Sukhi

Piya.
 
 
 

Yuttadhammo wrote:

> > As a wise monk says: there are only two kinds of Buddhism:
> > Yours and Mine.
>
> Dear Sir,
>
> Sorry to sound dense, but I don't get it...
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Yuttadhammo
>
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