[Buddha-l] Re: How to help the Dharma grow in the USA

[Richard Hayes]

On Wednesday 03 January 2007 20:26, Franz Metcalf wrote:

> Indeed, religious institutions need to promulgate and protect their
> structures of authority, just as academic institutions do. The
> imprimaturs they grant are not, fundamentally, measures of insight or
> scholarship as much as they are measures of palatability to the
> imprimatur-granting institutions. God knows Michel Foucault must have
> written on this this specific topic, somewhere.

Reading Foucault's "Discipline and Punish" right before attending a critical 
board of directors meeting at my Zen temple was directly responsible for my 
saying "Basta!", resigning from the board of directors, and spending the next 
six years as a Pratyeka Buddhist.

-- 
Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico