I found it on a click-through at http://www.americamagazine.org/ on an article about
Mother Dolores Hart.
(The author of that article is an editor at KTB). I've only glanced at a couple of articles and found them, well, "interesting." My first thought was "yeah, liberals with crosses," but they seem better thought out than most of the typical "me, too!" group-speak coming from those further left than an unshaven, rainbow-wearing, transgendered, lesbian, unitarian priestess who has replaced "chapter and verse" from the Bible with "season and episode" of Oprah.
Killing the Buddha is an online magazine of religion, culture, and politics. It began on November 13, 2000, when Peter Manseau and Jeff Sharlet invited readers who are both hostile and drawn to talk of God to join them in building an electronic Tower of Babel, a Talmudic cathedral of stories about faith lost and found. They named it after a saying of the Chinese Buddhist sage Lin Chi. Think of it like this:
After years on his cushion, a monk has what he believes is a breakthrough: a glimpse of nirvana, the Buddhamind, the big pay-off. Reporting the experience to his master, however, he is informed that what has happened is par for the course, nothing special, maybe even damaging to his pursuit. And then the master gives the student dismaying advice: If you meet the Buddha, he says, kill him.
Why kill the Buddha? Because the Buddha you meet is not the true Buddha, but an expression of your longing. If this Buddha is not killed he will only stand in your way.
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Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:26 pm
The little anecdote reminds me of a Russian saying "God is everywhere but the imagination of man.".
Or evenn the biblical warning of the devil appearing as an angel of light.
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Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:49 pm
That reflects the basic assumptions of Buddhism, that all desire of any kind is a thing to be overcome and negated. Answers are the last thing they look for, because they don't believe answers really exist. Every answer, anything like capital "T" Truth, is an illusion brought on by our desire.
Christianity believes that our desires are presently warped, but that they can be un-warped, and that all of our desires are really only aspects of the one desire for uni0n with God. Our desires are a gift from God and are ultimately completely fulfilled in Christ.
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Thoth Never had a corndog taco shake
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Wed Apr 04, 2012 2:02 pm
Looked around the site, strikes me as a lot of post-modern crap. A place for readers of the Utne reader to earn their spiritual street cred.
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I found it on a click-through at http://www.americamagazine.org/ on an article about
Mother Dolores Hart.
(The author of that article is an editor at KTB). I've only glanced at a couple of articles and found them, well, "interesting." My first thought was "yeah, liberals with crosses," but they seem better thought out than most of the typical "me, too!" group-speak coming from those further left than an unshaven, rainbow-wearing, transgendered, lesbian, unitarian priestess who has replaced "chapter and verse" from the Bible with "season and episode" of Oprah.
Killing the Buddha is an online magazine of religion, culture, and politics. It began on November 13, 2000, when Peter Manseau and Jeff Sharlet invited readers who are both hostile and drawn to talk of God to join them in building an electronic Tower of Babel, a Talmudic cathedral of stories about faith lost and found. They named it after a saying of the Chinese Buddhist sage Lin Chi. Think of it like this:
After years on his cushion, a monk has what he believes is a breakthrough: a glimpse of nirvana, the Buddhamind, the big pay-off. Reporting the experience to his master, however, he is informed that what has happened is par for the course, nothing special, maybe even damaging to his pursuit. And then the master gives the student dismaying advice: If you meet the Buddha, he says, kill him.
Why kill the Buddha? Because the Buddha you meet is not the true Buddha, but an expression of your longing. If this Buddha is not killed he will only stand in your way.
I think you are right. There are a few well thought out articles. All of the ones I read actually.
Of course, my view is that the more intelligent the mind the greater the intellectual justification for the emotional cacophony that rages inside them. I'll read it, though.
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Wed Apr 04, 2012 6:59 pm
Murf wrote:
Of course, my view is that the more intelligent the mind the greater the intellectual justification for the emotional cacophony that rages inside them. I'll read it, though.
Does that apply to you too?
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Murf Brother of the Briar
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Wed Apr 04, 2012 7:41 pm
Onyx wrote:
Murf wrote:
Of course, my view is that the more intelligent the mind the greater the intellectual justification for the emotional cacophony that rages inside them. I'll read it, though.
Does that apply to you too?
Absolutely, only my justifications were never that good. It was always easy to out me.
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