[Buddha-l] Enneagram and Buddhism

[jkirk]

I don't mind people spending time and money on personality
typing, I personally don't see any use of it and I'm convinced
it's value is more in imagebuilding than personal development. On
this side of the ocean a scientist who's into enneagrams or
scientology or astrology (Chinese, Tibetan or western) is not
taken very seriously. Popper has still to much influence. I
remember professor Vetter's visible irritation when students with
this kind of bias visited his lectures. You might want to look at
http://skepdic.com/enneagr.html Buddhists who value this kind of
thing are Tibetan lamas. I know that Norbu Rche and Sogyal Rche
are very much into astrology and it cannot be difficult to
compose some sort of theory that can be used as an interface
between this and enneagrams. 

Erik

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Hi Erik
Thanks for posting that skeptic link. Just looked at it and see
that it will take some time to read through, so later. New Agery,
which I luckily have been on the margins of, seems to me to have
been (or still is, if it's still viable)  an imperialistic
invasion of people's urgent needs for solace and of their hunger
for insights. Like imperialism and most religions (which
historically accompanied imperialism), it favors elaborate
hierarchies. Am against imperialism.

Cheers, Joanna





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