by cutsinger | Oct 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
Regarding a recent post of mine, you find as a Christian that a “strange inward tension” results when you try to adopt a “specifically Hindu term” like Witness, and you worry that it’s “somehow wrong for a Christian to accept...
by cutsinger | Sep 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
“And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force” (Matthew 11:12). How, you ask, can one hope to attain to the Kingdom by means of violence? It seems to me the problem can be...
by cutsinger | Sep 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
Needless to say, there is no simple solution to the problem you describe. The Path is a “path” because it must be traversed, jagged rocks and all, and this entails a combination of resolution and patience: resolution, lest we be tempted to give up; and...
by cutsinger | Aug 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
What is the Intellect? Permit me to quote by way of answer a short paragraph from the introduction to my recently published Schuon Reader. I don’t mean to suggest that this is the best possible response to your question—far from it—but it has the...
by cutsinger | Aug 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
To what extent (if at all) can we affect our own emotions? My answer depends on who we are. If “we” is a name for all our many inward layers and levels—”My name is legion,” said the demoniac (Mark 5:9)—then obviously our current...
by cutsinger | Jul 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
This post is part of a series, beginning here. “I have a question regarding Schuon’s claim that Vajrayana (or Kashmir Shaivism) is incompatible with the Western psyche. Isn’t it the case that Tibetan Buddhism ultimately derives from an Indo-Aryan...
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