... - is a "Gift from God," and makes all of us divine. ( Selections 107) His proof of this individual divinity is the universal moral sentiment that we are all born with - we instinctually know what is right and wrong, and we are rewarded with feelings of ennoblement after doing good deeds and punished with guilt after doing bad deeds. In his address he states, "If ... a preacher's home he would still "keep this lacerated young woman tied up in horrid situation[s] four or five hours at a time." (Oxford 59) He eventually released the lacerated woman to die in the woods, yet not one of his Ch...

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... monks or, bhikkhunis, the Buddha praised their spiritual attainments, said that they could become the equals of the monks, and prophesied that he would not die until he had enough wise monks and nuns, lay men and lay women followers. (Buddha, p.153) On the other hand, Gautama was not enthralled ... rebuke a bhikkhu, though any monk could rebuke her; nor could she preach to the bhikkhus (Buddha, p.153). At times it is difficult to understand how the Gautama could be so enlightened as to forget compassion towards a section of citizens who could never enjoy total freedom in a rigid, struct...

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