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Old 09-11-12, 12:49 PM   #77
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Originally Posted by Skybird View Post
It shows Hui Neng after he gained enlighhtenment. The first thing he did was running in to the monastery's library and destroying all written scrpoture he could find there. Because its all just bits of paper, leading you wrong, always, no matter what it says.
So a lone nut had a mental breakdown and took it upon himself to destroy a library in order to prevent anyone else from deciding it's value themselves. Sounds to me like this guy would have been right at home with the Inquisition or the folks who burned the library at Alexandria.

Atheists are every bit as dogmatic and intolerant as any Holy Joe.
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