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 == Reply to Tomananda == 

 Friend, 

 Fa- rectification is not a ""practice""... it is part of cultivation...The closest phrase I can find to it is the Hindu concept of  ""Dharma Punastaapana""... The dharma/teachings (Fa) rectifies the practitioners own heart... eliminating all evil within and the evil within the cosmic space encompassed by his bodies( not the physical body).... evil doesnot mean ""evil people"" ... there is ABSOLUTELY NO SUCH CONCEPT... EVIL refers to aggregates removed from the nature of the cosmos(zen shan ren) that control human thinking .... for instace ancient hindustani scriptures say... ""you may hate sin... but never hate the sinner""... 

 See what Li Hongzhi says about homosexuality: 
 ""You are wantonly indulging your thoughts. Your thoughts, like the ones I just mentioned, are not actually you. The mentality that makes you homosexual was driven by postnatally-formed bad things. But you yourself were numbed by them and went along with them and wallowed in the mud. You need to find yourself again and stop doing those filthy things. Gods view them as filthy."" 

 ...we see that homosexuality is strongly opposed in all traditions including gnosticism( see quote above from pistis sophia) and Buddist scriptures.. homosexuality is bad... doesnt mean homosexuals are!!!!!! ... hatred is bad.. doesnt mean who ever has felt hatred is!!! 

 ... all cultivation ways clearly distinguish between aggregates that manipualte human thoughts to make them accumulate karma and the person himself.... They also point out that some of the greatst cultivators have arisen from the sinnrs of the past... 

 .. we see that in the teachings, cultivators are asked.. never to harbour even the slightest trace of hatred against the police men who torture them in prison... not to see it with human thoughts... to see that they themselves are being manipulated by the ""evil""...  

 ... The content you are trying to add is terribly inaccurate.... 

 -Dilip Rajeev 

 Let me also add that the ""anonymous_user""... is not really anonymous... that is his user name!!!... ans is a user with several stars...."