[Buddha-l] Enlightenment as dogma

[Stefan Detrez]

2010/10/13 Gad Horowitz <horowitz at chass.utoronto.ca>

> Please, sir, may I meditate in some manner taught by Buddhists without
> suffering about whether "I" "am" a "Buddhist" or not?
>
>
You do not need my permission to meditate. The discussion is about whether
the Buddha's nirvana is to be taken as Buddhist dogma - and it turns out it
is - and now the question is whether one is considered deluded if one
doesn't 'see' what the Buddha has taught.

Stefan




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> > Thank you all for your answers.
> >
> > Some of the people answering my question seem to suggest one has to be
> > openminded, let certain critical alertness go, open yourself up to, etc.
> > Is
> > this not exactly the same language which says one should drop critical
> > thinking and approach it with trust or put faith in it? How is that
> > different from 'Open your heart and let Jesus in'? Wat if I 'do an
> > ehipassiko' and just don't see it, would I be considered deluded of
> > blinded
> > by ignorance? How is this reIated to the idea that it takes faith to be a
> > Buddhist? I subscribe to the fact that Buddhist practice alters a person,
> > but I don't think that would be the merit of it being Buddhist, but more
> > as
> > a consequence of proper breathing and thought control. But I could be
> > wrong.
> >
> >
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