[Buddha-l] there he goes again (sam harris)

[Richard Hayes]

On Thursday 26 October 2006 13:53, curt wrote:

> Sam Harris in the Shambhala Sun: "Students of the Buddha are very well
> placed to further our understanding on this front, but the religion of
> Buddhism currently stands in their way."

I couldn't agree more. Sam and Stephen Batchelor and I should maybe think of 
getting together and refusing to start a new religion. But Krishnamurti 
already tried that. It didn't work. People are so addicted to religion that 
they can't resist turning just about everything that shows any danger of 
making sense into one.

-- 
Richard P. Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico
http://www.unm.edu/~rhayes