[Buddha-l] The AmericanNew EnglandTranscendentalists' retreat--Follensby Pond

[jkirk]

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EnglandTranscendentalists' retreat--Follensby Pond

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!

Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 11:54 AM:

>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


How about some citations? 
Joanna
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