[Buddha-l] Buddha's Meditation

[Richard Hayes]

On Jul 6, 2011, at 13:27, "bob Woolery" <drbob at comcast.net> wrote:

>  My very spotty reading of the Canon suggests that the Buddha considered what he taught to be a "see for yourself" thing, not dependent on God, Reincarnation, or Vegetarianism.

True enough, but if you didn't see for yourself exactly what the Buddha said you should see, you would be sent immediately to an optometrist to cure your faulty vision. As Franz has already pointed out, the science-friendly empiricist non-dogmatic pluralistic Pragmatist Buddhism that has taken the West by storm was a storm brewed in the West, not an Asian tempest. If Buddhism is a mirror, Westerners have seen their own faces in it and fallen in love with what they saw. 

RH