[Buddha-l] liturgical languages

[Richard P. Hayes]

On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 13:50 +0100, Mike Austin wrote:

> >I find
> >it laughable that any grown man would believe in full enlightenment.
> 
> I find it premature that someone would laugh at a joke before he knew 
> the punch line.

I don't regard it as a joke. I have quite a number of good reasons to
doubt that enlightenment is possible as it is classically described.
Moreover, I don't find it a very useful concept at all for Buddhist
practice. It's an obscurantist concept.

-- 
Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico