[Buddha-l] The authentic Buddha of Encounter

[Hune Margulies, Ph.D.]

In the I-Thou relationship. There is no absolutes, nor relatives, only the 
encounter..





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Hune Margulies, Ph.D.
Director, The Martin Buber Center For Dialogical Ecology
914-439-7731
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>From: John Chamberlin <jchamberl at cox.net>
>Reply-To: Buddhist discussion forum <buddha-l at mailman.swcp.com>
>To: Buddhist Discussion <Buddha-L at mailman.swcp.com>
>Subject: [Buddha-l] The authentic Buddha
>Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 05:27:20 -0700
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>I have a question for those of you on this list that have an ongoing  
>Buddhist Practice and have found refuge in that practice, and also at  
>least flirt with Relativism. I seem to have this persistent and often  
>frustrating belief that authenticity of a religious body of knowledge/ 
>practice can only be “real” if it constitutes an absolute in the  world…a 
>Meta Theory in Postmodernist language. Strange I know, but  nevertheless a 
>source of great struggle for me, and although I  persist in my practice, 
>and seem to seldom stray from the Eight-Fold  Path, it often feels as if 
>I’m practicing an act of bad faith in the  19th century Existentialist 
>sense of the term. This bad faith coupled  with my long-standing attraction 
>to all forms of Relativism in  general, results in producing a rather 
>breezy religious refuge for  me.  The Question: How does one find 
>authenticity in any system of  beliefs/practices if there are no absolutes?


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