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To: alt.philosophy.zen,alt.religion.buddhism,alt.zen,talk.religion.buddhism From: tang_huyen@my-deja.com Subject: Re: Strict Hinduism (was Re: True Enlightenment) Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 20:14:50 GMT In article, "iamyhwh" wrote: Tang: < > iamyhwh: < > What you are saying is strict Hinduism and not Buddhism: < > In Buddhism, there is fiction, which is mentation, and reality, which is sensible reality. Reality is free of mentation, whereas in Hinduism, there is only mentation/thought, which creates all reality, which latter is therefore illusory. As you say: < >, which is a definition of maya. Indeed there is in Hinduism no physical actuality outside of the thought of Brahma/God. In Hinduism, it is also called prapańca "(worldly) development", in the physical sense, while in Buddhism, the same word means "(mental) proliferation", purely in the mental sense. In Hinduism, mental development turns physical and *becomes* the world (which does *not* exist outside of that development), in Buddhism mental proliferation occurs on top of sensible reality and the two are separate. In Tibetan Buddhism, there is the view that all reality is projection, as expounded recently by Kent Sandvik in TRB, and that is a faithful copy of Hinduism (or a blend of Hinduism and shamanism) that tries to pass itself off as Buddhism. Tang Huyen Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.
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