[Buddha-l] Natural lucidity for Socrates

[Fools Crow]

Most of the works I have read that are supposed to be the words of  
the Buddha seem to be monologues. Are there any Buddhists works that  
are dialogues between the Buddha and his friends/enemies?


Fools Crow
foolscrow at marmotpress.org



On Sep 4, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Jim Peavler wrote:

>
> On Sep 2, 2006, at 6:06 PM, jkirk wrote:
>
>> I used to read Socrates's last speech to my son when he was a  
>> kid-----
>> we both used to weep at the thought that so morally brilliant and  
>> noble a person was being executed by the state.
>> That exercise set the template for us about the state as executioner.
>> Joanna
>
> I know what you mean. I didn't read any Plato until I was a  
> Freshmen in college, and he blew me away.
>
> I think you, of all people, will appreciate this story. When I  
> moved to Idaho I moved out of a university environment into an  
> engineering environment. I could find nobody at all who was  
> interested in what I was interested in outside of winter  
> mountaineering. So, my beautiful and kind-hearted secretary told me  
> one day about a group she belonged to that read great books, and  
> she thought I would be interested. So she got the group to invite  
> me on the night it was to meet at her house. They were reading the  
> Apology, Phaedo, and Crito. I was really excited and reread the  
> works carefully. With some eagerness and trepidation I went to the  
> meeting, but found very soon that the purpose of the meeting was to  
> prove or disprove whether Plato was a proto-mormon!  As politely as  
> possible, I thanked my guests, but was not invited (thankfully) to  
> any more meetings.
>
>
> Jim Peavler
> jmp at peavler.org
>
>
>
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