[Buddha-l] Rice & Dragons

[James A. Stroble]

> Dear Joanna and Dan,
> 
> no further points are necessary. I know a bit about the dragon-lore
> myself --- what with one of the Polish kingdom's founding myths
> involving a humble but nonetheless heroic dragon slayer.
> 
> What I find of interest here is the question of compatibility. Is
> Buddhism better suited to flourish in the areas of wet-rice
> cultivation, with its tradition of communal labor, or in the areas of
> wheat (barley, etc.) cultivation, with its tradition of - mainly -
> single homestead labor?
> 
> Artur

Artur, I think you nailed it when you said "interesting, and elegant". But you 
forgot to add, "and probably wrong". 

So we invoke the inverse Ockham's Razor, what is simpliest is more likely to 
not be true.   Fits with Buddhist logic, no? 

-- 
James Andy Stroble, PhD