Scriptures, Seriousness & Sniggering
Wednesday September 30, 2009
Just time for a quick post, amid the frenzy of the beginning of a new term at the university. A few months ago, I wrote a review of Ralph Flores’s book, Buddhist Scriptures as Literature, in the Western Buddhist Review. This morning I heard from Marcus over on marcusjournal.blogspot.com, who has posted a thoughtful response to my review, raising questions about orthodoxy, seriousness and sniggering. If you want to follow this up, then my original review is here, and Marcus’s blog can be found by following the link above. And, if you are truly serious, then you’ll want to read Flores’s book as well, which can be found here
#2 · marc
5 October 2009
I-me-my … May be buddhism is more like a box full of tools ,than a dark sky where the ego can rejoice himself watching “his” mind shining above the earth… in other words ,in bouddhism theories,considering an idea as a concept,is of no use;may be it is more usefull to consider it as a practice… marc.
#1 · Jacob Russell
1 October 2009
In a way, your post on “doing” … led me to this protest. I had gone back and forth… and in the end, stopped contended …
Here is an account of what happened… a testiment, of sorts, to the entirely unpredictable outcomes of meditation…
jacobrussellsbarking…