
Symbols of Life and Growth
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The Rain Falls and the Sun Shines on the Good and the Bad
Some people find the approach to Buddhism or to the truth represented by some particular school or tradition helpful but unfortunately they don't just make use of that method. They become rather sectarian saying well this school this particular tradition and only this is really Buddhism. If you want to be a Buddhist then you've got to follow this and this alone otherwise you aren't really a Buddhist at all, he says. It's as bad as orthodox Christianity in fact it represents where you may say a caring over of Christian attitudes into Buddhism and Buddhist life itself. The text the white lotus who to text says that the rain falls and the sun shines on the good and the bad a lack I want now to paraphrase
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