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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MeGusta" data-source="post: 19251993" data-attributes="member: 419878"><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/lol.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="LOL    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/lol.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="LOL    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/lol.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="LOL    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />There is a section in lotus sutra which explains a visit from alien.They were commenting how ugly human appearance is.The student asks his master for permission to visit earth and listen  to the sermon of Sakyamuni, the terrestrial Buddha.  Permission is  granted, but the master gives Gadgadasvara some interesting cautions  about what to expect on earth: “On coming to earth you must not conceive a low opinion of it.  The  earthly Buddha Lord Sakyamuni will seem small compared to you, as are  his disciples.   He looks different from us and he and his followers  will seem to be ugly, so do not behave rudely.  The earth itself has  parts that are ugly like sewers, so do not form a low opinion of it.”</blockquote>

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