[Buddha-l] Re: Christian meditation and eastern symbolism

[Michael J. Wilson]

    Said Joy:

In fact the "danger to avoid" I refered to was the "danger of falling 
into syncretism" (These and similar proposals to harmonize Christian 
meditation with eastern techniques need to have their contents and 
methods ever subjected to a thorough-going examination so as to avoid 
the danger of falling into syncretism.).


  Says I:
   
  I have no argument with syncretism so I guess I would argue with the new pontiff.  I have nothing to defend. Once having been a student of anthropology and religion I studied religions paradoxically to become a better aetheist and a better devotee.  Religions are all different variations of the same quest - there is no denying a mystical inner force in the universe - unbroken wholeness.  We glean as much in dim light of our silent prayer - we were breathing.
   
  all the best
  michael
   


		
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