[Buddha-l] Bourgeois Buddhism

[Federico Andino]

So, for example, Anatman is out?

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On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Stefan Detrez <stefan.detrez at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think it is possible to find out what 'real' Buddhism is, eventhough I
> prefer to call it 'essential' Buddhism. It's one thing what proletarians
> think it is, and it's another thing what an elite or a bourgeousie thinks it
> is (just to recycle the marxist idiom). It can also be found by asking
> Buddhist scholars and non-Buddhist scholars with the effect that 'real'
> Buddhism can be understood depending on the perspective one takes on it. Or
> we can think of it ourselves and spark debate.
>
> My own definition of 'essential Buddhism' is simple.
>
> To know by heart and to live by the Four Noble Truths and the Eighthfold
> Path.
>
> Anything less will be 'very lay Buddhism'. There!
>
> Stefan
>
>
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> 2011/9/25 Federico Andino <dingirfecho at gmail.com>
>
>> >
>> >
>> > I believe Buddhist communities of practitioners decide who is and  who is
>> > not Buddhist.
>> >
>> > jack
>> >
>>
>>
>> Wait wait wait...let´s not act rashly.
>> I´m interested in creating this Newspeak Buddhist thought police and
>> then exerting a payment from all the groups that want to call
>> themselves buddhist. Say, could we get a classroom to meet decked in
>> red and black?
>>
>> F
>>
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