[Buddha-l] Batchelor

[lemmett at talk21.com]

Hello.
Is there a middle ground between rebirth and thinking that karma is purely psychological? I can't think of one. Sorry if I've misrepresented Batchelor here. 
Slight tangent but would you say that Epicurus' advice (that death is not to be feared because we're not there) is according to Buddhism also a source of stress and so even on its own terms is impractical. In what other ways might Epicurus be wrong? E.g., I'd imagine that for him looking forward to death is equally illogical but looking forward to nirvana is not, right? Why and can you help me make sense of that?
I don't want to gloss 'nirvana' and 'death', which brings me back to Batchelor: is karma at best a cure for nihilism?
Thanks for any help.



--- On Sat, 22/5/10, Zelders.YH <zelders.yh at wxs.nl> wrote:

From: Zelders.YH <zelders.yh at wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] Batchelor
To: buddha-l at mailman.swcp.com
Date: Saturday, 22 May, 2010, 0:46


Joy wrote :

>Again, I haven't read SB's last book and now I will have to... :-)

You can also listen to some audio files on the Dharma Seed site 
[http://www.dharmaseed.org/teacher/169/].
Here is a nice one : it's a reading by Batchelor from Nov. last year 
during a study and meditation retreat at Spirit Rock, and it will 
take 59:24 h. of your precious life.
It's titled : 'Experiencing the Unconditioned', our favourite topic : 
http://www.dharmaseed.org/talks/wimpy/wimpy_popup.html?theFile=http://dharmaseed.org/talks/wimpy/7305.xml

Watching the man delivering a lecture may even be more 
interesting. 
<http://fora.tv/2010/03/19/Stephen_Batchelor_Confession_of_a_Buddhist_Atheist>http<http://fora.tv/2010/03/19/Stephen_Batchelor_Confession_of_a_Buddhist_Atheist>://fora.tv/2010/03/19/Stephen_Batchelor_Confession_of_a_Buddhist_Atheist 
is a very nice video from the book tour from March this year,  (01:03:37 h.).

EnJoy !

Herman 
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