by cutsinger | Jul 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
How to “maintain balance” and “acquire peace”? I could simply quote myself quoting Schuon: “Metaphysical truth, a life of prayer, moral conformity, interiorizing beauty: this is the essential, and this is our message” (Advice to the...
by cutsinger | Jul 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
I’m not nearly as familiar as you seem to be with the writings of Aurobindo. But did he not say that human beings constitute a “transitional species”? This, if so, is at least one good reason his teachings have been so strongly repudiated by those...
by cutsinger | Jun 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
I agree that “not even the addict is equally attached to all things”, but our attachments to the odd numbers can’t help but color our perception of the even numbers. I would certainly beware of supposing myself “safely able to...
by cutsinger | Jun 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
Precision is clearly called for. It’s quite unfair of you to oversimplify things and say that we Christians “encourage self-doubt” while you Buddhists don’t. Your childhood experiences with the total depravity crowd, while certainly...
by cutsinger | May 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
“How,” you ask, “can we make modern people skeptical of their enormously successful science?” I very much doubt we can, not at least taking “modern people” en masse. I’ve certainly never supposed my own teaching or writing...
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