--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "frank" <frank@4...> wrote:

> This is an excerpt of a recent news story:
> >
> Comment:
>
> Often there is a lot of needless bickering over the precise

meaning and

> choice of terminology and dogmatic and stubborn clinging to a

particular

> interpretation of sacred text in religion, including Buddhism.
>
> What I love about this story is that COS (church of Satan)

realizes the true

> purpose of 666 . If this
> kind of pragmatic spirit represents the other tenets of COS, their

religion

> shows much more promise than most religions.
>++++++++

Dear Frank,
I respect your appreciation for the Church of Satan.
But not sure that the message in the Buddhist suttas is that precise
meaning and terminology is needless.
The confounding of Saddhamma
Anguttara Nikaya book of fives 155
""Monks these five things lead to the confounding, the disappearance
of Saddhamma. What five?

Herein monks, the monks master not Dhamma:. The sayings,
psalms...runes.

This monks is the first thing...
they teach not others in detail as heard, as learned....
They make not others speak it in detail....
.They make no repetition of it in detail...
Again monks, the monks do not in their hearts turn over and ponder
upon Dhamma, they review it not in their minds.
This monks is the fifth thing that leads to the confounding, the
disappearance of Saddhamma"

Robertk