[Buddha-l] Question for academic teachers of Buddhism

[Christopher Fynn]

Vera, Pedro L. wrote:

> Chris Finn wrote:

>> What puzzled him was th attitude of western dharma students whom he saw
>> as not being fully committed to one thing or the other. He thought this
>> attitude would inevitably result in a person succeeding neither
>> spiritually nor materially. I suspect this way of looking at things may
> be fairly ingrained in traditional Asian Buddhist cultures -....


> It may be that his way of looking at this is ingrained, but is he right? 


This is not an off-hand question. The older I get the less likely I think I
will be successful in multiple areas. So, does this particular Tibetan 
teacher
have a point about being split into too many directions?

> Regards,
> Pedro 


All these years later, I think so too.

- Chris
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