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

[Joy Vriens]

Michael J. wrote:

>     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

Man's need to associate around a set of ideas and to create metafamilies?

> - 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.

I don't know about a (unique, is that what you were thinking of?) inner 
force in the universe, possible, but I consider silence as a mystical 
inner force in myself.

Joy