[Buddha-l] Bourgeois Buddhism

[Stefan Detrez]

Hi Frederico

You wrote:


> I agree with you wholeheartedly, in that approaching the Dharma from a
> new direction is enriching. But it would not be buddhism, right?
> Still, I cannot reconciliate how an "essential buddhism" can do away
> with what Buddha Sakyamuni did.
> Wasn´t he the essential Buddhist?
>
>
It would not be buddhism, it would be critical thinking. What would make him
the essential Buddhist?

Stefan