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To: Greg or e who wrote (16337)	6/10/2001 2:35:56 AM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 82486

I have a feeling , your next lesson in Truth & Reason will begin tomorrow... Here's something for you to ponder while waiting, an arresting thought in one of Plato's Dialogues, the Symposium : that love is the midpoint between ignorance and wisdom, the mediator between humans and the gods, and that through love we attain spiritual understanding. also: St. Paul, too, spoke of love in one of the most beautiful passages of the Bible in homage to his Master's commandment, that "ye love one another as I have loved you." : that even if he could speak all the languages of men and of angels, and had not love, he would be as sounding brass and tinkling cymbal; and even had he the gift of prophecy, knew all mysteries and had faith to move mountains, but had not love, he would be nothing So it is in Buddhism, the ideal human being, the bodhisattva who is "awakened" to the Reality behind life's illusions, is spoken of as possessing mahakarunacitta -- the "great loving heart." He has arrived at the "other shore" of enlightenment guided and strengthened by perfecting in himself the two most important virtues in Buddhist philosophy, karuna and prajna, "love" and "discriminating wisdom" born of altruism ...freed from ignorance. just so many similarities , so coinidentally occurring in the thoughts of mens minds , so many whom never had the chance to gaze upon even one Bible so many centuries before. ... very interesting and worth further study , wouldn't you say greg ? How dare we think that there is any possibility of the perfectability of Man ...it is enough for you to know that we have fallen and can't get up. There are so many others you haven't the slightest clue of that would kindly disagree...even up in the "Great White North" ;-)