[Buddha-l] Refuge in what?

[Curt Steinmetz]

Dan Lusthaus wrote:
> Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, declared there was no such thing as a 
> Hindu or a Moslem. He discovered that trying to be neither made him a third 
> entity, which came to be called Sikh. Within five generations Sikhs had to 
> carry knives (and make that a religious obligation for all males) to protect 
> themselves from Muslims.
>
> Universals are never as universal as proponents believe. Buddhists (but not 
> Hindus, Muslims, et al.) say that.
>   

A recurring phenomenon in the west is zen students/teachers who declare 
that they will no longer use the label "zen", and then they end up 
creating one or more new labels. Or groups that declare that they have 
no forms, and then end up establishing their own set of forms. Or 
teachers who declare that they don't need to be given transmission or be 
part of a lineage, and then end up giving transmission to their students 
and starting a new lineage.

Curt