[Buddha-l] Jesus is Buddha?

[curt]

I have to admit that I was sitting here laughing heartily at the crack 
about Nagarjuna driving him insane - and then I got this. Well put, 
Richard. It reminds me of the Kenny Wheeler "thread" back a while. I 
hesitated to pile on to that thread (to be honest I can't remember if I 
finally did or not) - and my hesitation was partly due to the fact that 
I have actually met Kenny in the flesh. When he is not acting out his 
paranoid delusions he can be a funny and personable guy who is a very 
good photographer and has lots of interesting stories about hiking the 
Appalachian trail (and about 80% of his body is covered in tattoos - for 
real). I am on his personal shit list now (and have been for years), so 
it doesn't really matter much whether I can see his good side or not, at 
least as far as he is concerned. Some of the free pdf's he has on his 
website are actually pretty worthwhile - like George Woodhouse's 
biography of Gemisthos Plethon (which, in turn, contains Woodhouse's 
translation of Plethon's "De Differentiis".
- Curt

Richard P. Hayes wrote:

>Dear friends,
>
>It may be worth remembering that Christian Lindtner is a living human
>being who, like all of us, has had his share of dukkha and that nothing
>much is gained by gossiping about him and alleging him to be insane.
>
>I'm sorry to be such a moralist, but I just learned that one of my
>colleagues is no longer a living human being, and it has filled me, as
>announcements of the deaths of friends always do, that life is too
>precious to waste on belittling the achievements, beliefs and practices
>of others who are, like us, doing their best to get by in a savage
>world.
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