[Buddha-l] The American New EnglandTranscendentalists' retreat--Follensby Pond

[Richard Hayes]

On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 11:39 -0700, jkirk wrote:

> So whoever wrote that aticle must not have been reading the
> suttas. Or maybe it depends on what one calls "nature." The
> Buddhasasana sure were not laudative of unreconstructed human
> nature!

The article was based entirely on passages from the suttas. The world of
"nature" or "wilderness" was described as places where human inhabitants
are either very rare or lacking altogether. Such places were seen as
frightening and unappealing and were commonly used in the suttas as
metaphors of undesirable mental states. 

-- 
Richard