RELIGST 2I03 Lecture Notes - Gautama Buddha
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Corresponding readings: the buddha makes his case for the homeless life. The buddha makes his case for the homeless life: the third teaching is called the mah s han da sutta: the great lion"s roar. Again, it is a kind of game of redefinition. A practitioner of severe asceticism, kassapa, ask the buddha whether it is true that the. Buddha has disapproved of the practice of severe asceticism. In return, the buddha says no, of course not. But then goes on to define what he means by asceticism. We get a list in paragraph 14 of a variety of ascetic practices. A practiser of self-mortification may do all these things, bit if his morality, his heart and his wisdom are not developed and brought to realization, then indeed he is still far from being an ascetic or a brahmin .