[Buddha-l] Bourgeois Buddhism

[Jackhat1 at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/20/2011 9:07:31 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
dingirfecho at gmail.com writes:
 
_http://www.huffingtonpost.com/owen-flanagan-phd/do-american-buddhists-miss-
the-point-of-buddhism_b_964188.html_ 
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/owen-flanagan-phd/do-american-buddhists-miss-the-point-of-buddhism_b_964188.html) 
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>Buddhism has about as little to do with meditation as Jesus's  message of 
love has to do with prayer, which is some, not entirely nothing;  but almost 
nothing.<


It was interesting to learn that this person thinks the Four Noble  
Truths/8-Fold Path, Anapanasati Sutta, Satipatthana Sutta, the many references  to 
jhana in the Pali Sutta and on and on are not  Buddhist.


jack