So bodhisatvas don't get another go round? Or do they just stay in Nirvana here?
Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I'm not saying you weren't easy to find. It was kinda out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting.
Mal ,'Safe'
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§ ita § - Jul 30, 2004 5:33:24 am PDT #8699 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Nutty - Jul 30, 2004 5:36:20 am PDT #8700 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I think it would really blow to become one with the universe and then have to start all over again with being a cockroach.
sumi - Jul 30, 2004 5:39:46 am PDT #8701 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
I would think that bodhisattvas can reach Nirvana again. . . if they choose to.
sumi - Jul 30, 2004 5:44:05 am PDT #8702 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Okay, I've just remembered that I am wrong.
I don't think that bodhisattvas become extinguished and then return, I think that they get to the point where they will be at Nirvana but are not extinguished yet and say, "wait, there is still more suffering in this world, I cannot leave yet" or something and don't do it. So they can probably get to that point any number of times but not go over.
Unless, I'm wrong again of course. Let me drink my tea and go find my basic book of Buddhism and get back to you guys.
sumi - Jul 30, 2004 5:50:56 am PDT #8703 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
So,
The Teaching of Buddha
the little book I got at the Buddhist temple during my niece's welcome ceremony (I can no longer remember if that is what it was called) and produced by the Society of the Promotion of Buddha) doesn't really answer the question with a nice clear definition of a bodhisattva.
§ ita § - Jul 30, 2004 6:38:25 am PDT #8704 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think it would really blow to become one with the universe and then have to start all over again with being a cockroach.
That's not how bodhisatvas work. Although, I suppose, some might, if it's cockroaches they wanted to teach.
Theodosia - Jul 30, 2004 7:44:30 am PDT #8705 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Wait, wait --
Michael’s mouth, [...], rested on her bare chest as his lips continued nuzzling the woman’s breasts.
I would have thought that 'lips' are an integral part of 'mouth' at least on most normal faces.
Deena - Jul 30, 2004 8:14:07 am PDT #8706 of 10000
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
I flashed on a shudderingly horrible picture of his face planted in between her breasts, with his lips roaming around separately like some disembodied hand from a horror movie, trying to find some nipple. I'm glad you wondered about those roaming lips too. I thought I was the only one.
Connie Neil - Jul 30, 2004 8:24:23 am PDT #8707 of 10000
brillig
Just like that Angel villan who could detach parts of his body.
And now I'm all grossed out.
§ ita § - Jul 30, 2004 8:35:37 am PDT #8708 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
And now I'm all grossed out.
But having sex with him would be so...well, you don't have to worry about flexibility, or getting limbs tangled, or anything. Think of the things he could do to you simultaneously.
Almost as much fun as shagging Mr. Fantastic.