[Buddha-l] Western Buddhism

[Joy Vriens]

Richard,
>Seeing the source of one's strength as outside oneself strikes me as 
>immature thinking. Mature practice consists in seeing that all of one's 
>strength comes from within,

I wonder what the Buddha would think about that? He did tell us to be islands unto ourselves, but he wasn't very specific about an "inside oneself" and a "within". Not that I have a problem with that, but I do have a problem knowing what is inside and what outside.  

Joy