[Buddha-l] Western Buddhism

Joy Vriens jvriens at free.fr
Fri Nov 16 21:28:07 MST 2007


Richard,
>David Webster wrote: 
>> Many of my generation (not quite yet 40...) who study Buddhism [here in the 
>> UK at least] seem to be clearly self-defined as non-Buddhist.. 
  
>> What's that all about then? 
 
>That's about what I would expect. The generation who taught you had 
>fallen in love with Buddhism. Your generation realized that Bob Dylan 
>was speaking the truth when he said "You can't be wise and in love at 
>the same time." I expect your generation to produce far better 
>scholarship on Buddhism than mine has done; we were all so enamoured of 
>our object of study that we could not see it at all clearly. 

Deep bow for your answer mr Hayes.

Yet, at the same time, I would say that whoever is not enamoured with the object of their study doesn't see it. And "it" is not necessarily the object of the study.

Joy 



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