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: I'm a little familiar with this form. I think Buddhism has a lot to offer when freed from the centuries of traditionalizing that have locked it down. Christianity is the same way. We just have to be careful that in the process of removing the added trappings we don't recreate it in our own image of the world, or fall into reductionism where we strip all meaning from it by trying too hard to identify where things came from instead of taking it as we find it. : I'm no expert of course, but in our own little corner of the world I've always wanted to have some good conversations between people of different faiths and opinions...I mean good rollicking discussions...tavern kind of stuff, not snotty coffee house strutting...where we just want to see where we go. The problem is alot of people don't know how to disagree. I mean be able to say, "I think you're dead wrong man, let me buy the next round and it's your turn to throw the darts!" : : : I love Buddhism, particularly the form it has taken in the West through the process of inculturation. Stephen Batchelor's <a href=http://www.stephenbatchelor.org/msthesiscover.htm> <a/"agnostic" form> is very compelling. : : I have to wonder whether the tendency of Japanese Buddhists to deify the Buddha is a holdover from Shinto. Likewise, the Mahayana tradition of Buddhism, which holds to the Bodhisattva ideal (a surrogate for God), developed in Northern India long after the Buddha himself--who refused to speculate about the nature of the Divine--had died. But that's hardly surprising, since India has always been among the most religious places on the planet.

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