[Buddha-l] Re: Filtered Buddhism

[curt]

Richard Hayes wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 June 2007 11:47, Timothy C. Cahill wrote:
>
>   
>> Grounded?  Sounds like our learned colleague is rather well grounded to
>> me!  I'm pretty sure he can find the requested examples in the archives of
>> this very list.  See, for example, the responses offered by westernern
>> practitioners on the Buddha bikini issue (Victoria's Secret catalogue).
>> Here's an example of one.
>>     
>
> I don't find any disparaging remarks about Asian Buddhists coming from our 
> learned co-conspirators on buddha-l. Nor do I see people clamoring for 
> something less challenging and difficult. Those are the careless remarks for 
> which Curt has been grounded,
>
>   

I could quote you chapter and verse from the writings of Stephen 
Batchelor on both of these issues (disparaging Asian Buddhists and 
clamoring for things less challenging), but we just did that not long 
ago. His writings are readily available to anyone who is interested and 
apparently they are subject to a wide variety of interpretations, 
including interpretations according to which there is nothing 
disparaging about Asian Buddhists nor any clamoring for something less 
challenging and difficult. Jesus said "seek and ye shall find." But he 
left out the corollary "don't seek and ye shan't find."

- Curt