[Buddha-l] Non attached & mindful culinary triumphalism?

[Artur Karp]

 Hi, Artur
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2011/7/10 Katherine Masis <twin_oceans at yahoo.com>:
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> I sometimes wonder whether we're taking the old texts way too seriously.  Could some clowning monk have written this in jest?

Dear Katherine,

It's quite possible. But even jests possess a rationale - always.

It's our task to reconstruct it. It's another question, whether we
possess a sufficiently sophisticated methodology needed for this kind
of textual criticism.

Artur