RELI 100 Lecture 5: Buddhism Lecture 1
9 Mar 2017
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Itaka - basket: = three baskets of knowledge. First book: basically a book about the history of the life of the original buddha, Like a basket, has a certain limited purpose: o(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:455)ou ha(cid:448)e a(cid:271)sor(cid:271)ed the truth, (cid:455)ou do(cid:374)"t (cid:374)eed the te(cid:454)t a(cid:374)(cid:455)(cid:373)ore. Buddhism is a missioning religion: you do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e to (cid:271)e (cid:271)or(cid:374) i(cid:374)to it, all that matters is that you accept the truth, and you"re in. It is not linked to a certain ethnic group: buddha was called sunyamurti - wander, means the image of the void, an image of the void itself, not the ultimate truth. It"s really not (existent??: there is no me or you in the void, we are also illusions the idea of individuals is nonsense, there are no egos. If there are no substances to i, then there can"t be any groups of i together.
