[Buddha-l] Question for acedemic teachers of Buddhism

[Curt Steinmetz]

Milton is wonderful! So much of what I have enjoyed reading throughout 
my entire life has been stuff in translation (Homer, Plato, Dostoyevsky, 
Kafka, Trotsky, Buddha, Hakuin ... ). But there is nothing like reading 
someone who is a true master of language in one's own mother tongue. And 
Paradise Lost is really hot stuff - between all the naughty bits and the 
great speeches by Satan it's almost enough to give Puritanism a good name.

Milton was jailed for his politicking - much of which centered on 
social/cultural issues. He was in favor of what we would today call 
"no-fault" divorce - a concept that the state of Maryland still only 
hesitantly accepts in the 21st century!

Curt Steinmetz

jkirk wrote:
> "He [Jung] makes a good case for the importance of spending a
> lifetime maturing into the mythology of the tradition one learned
> as a child. "
>
> Along this line, I was re-inspired by my Protestant childhood
> myths and legends by reading a review article about John Milton,
> whose 400th birth anniversay is this year, June 2d New Yorker:
> "Return to Paradise," by Jonathan Rosen.
> http://tinyurl.com/688rah 
>
> When I was in college I couldn't stand to read Milton. Now it
> might be about time to try at least Areopagitica, his defense of
> free speech (at a time when contrary to the legends of my
> childhood, my country no longer has it); and even Paradise Lost,
> again. Milton's Adam and Eve had the temerity to enjoy sex before
> the Fall. Adam chose to fall with her--contrary to renderings
> from my youth as Man deceived by wily Woman, instead of by Satan.
>
> "How can I live without you, how forgo
> Thy sweet converse and love so dearly
> Joined,
> To live again in these wild woods forlorn?
> Should God create another Eve, and I
> Another rib afford, yet loss of thee 
> Would never from my heart."
>
> Milton despite being a Puritan was also quite the free-thinker.
> Joanna
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>> I don't think Jung was very knowledgeable about Buddhism.
>>     
>
> That makes no difference to his claim, which is about human
> psychology.
> He makes a good case for the importance of spending a lifetime
> maturing into the mythology of the tradition one learned as a
> child.
>
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