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From: "Ned Ludd" <nedludd@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: An exception to the rule of mediocrity? (was Re: The Boddhisattva in  Theravada)
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:02:14 -0500
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Namdrol <malcolm.smith@...genuity.com> wrote in message
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>
> Finally, all of this -- "I know Buddhism better than you do", "you are a
> fool", all the yadda yadda, of which I am just as guilty as you, troll,
> cupcake, dar, etc, on this newsgroup will be meaningless as we lay dying,
> alone and without companinos. At that point the only thing that will help
> us is our practice of Dharma.
>

 But we can give it up once we die, right?

                                                   Ned