Indika Totawatta and Mahayana

 Indika Totawatta and Mahayana

Indika Totawatta is a smart guy.

He seem to be straying away from Theravada Tradition or Words of Elders, for no good reason..

The practice Mahayana and in other words delay liberation.

It is his choice and I have no right to interfere.

 

But my gut feeling is some monks are using him to settle  their own scores.

He is trapped in this tussle.

One should not do that as a layperson. He is entitled to that having become a monk.  I do not think he has any hindrance to become a monk and promote healthy "Dhamma Sakachcha" unless of course he wishes to marry someday.

 

"Kalena Dhamma Sakachcha" is a done thing for laypersons but only among lay.

 

Dividing Sangha is an Ananntariya Kamma. 

 

All my life I kept away from monks except monks who are/were related to me.

Looking after relatives including, those in Sasana is a done thing.

That is my objective.

 

Dhamma is not an academic exercise.

 

Dhamma is to practice with earnest intentions.

 

It is not for TV or YouTube drama.

Words of Buddha were recorded in three different time.

400 years after Parinibbhana

1100 years later in China.

1700 years later in Matale Aluvihara.

My estimation of Sermons of Buddha would be 400 for a year up to 42,000.

 

Atuwa estimate is 84,000.

 

Probability of duplication of text or combination from two original sources is plausible.

 

I dispense 550 Jataka Kata on the ground that each Buddha lived much more lives than that 550.  

Jataka Kata contributed heavily to Buddhist Literature. 

That is not bad at all

Mahayana Tradition delays deliverance and wants to live  a Bodhisattva life for eternity.

Buddha's Last Teaching was Appamado Amata Padam.

Strive hard.

Do not delay.

Of course Vajrayana push this to the limit of extreme asceticism which Buddha rejected  after 7 or 9 years of practice.

I follow Dhammda Verse.

Knowing 1000 verses by heart has no value.

But Knowing one verse in detail may lead to the path of liberation.