The book was talked about in Tricycle and it is on that long looongg
list of books I need to read. When thinking of religion I also like
to separate the core beliefs from the institutionalization of them.
I first became interested during that awful time when I was trying so
very hard to figure things out. My professor said, "Sometimes the best
way to get an answer to a question is to stop asking it."
It was my first koan. Any time my mind got into that restless state
where thought after thought chase each other, all I had to do was
think on this and everything became still. And in the stillness,
often came greater clarity.
People's perception of Buddhism and its focus on suffering has been
a mystery to me. It is the attachment to suffering that can be
dispensed with. Sigh.
Have you ever read the "Grand Inquisitor"? I love it. An athiest
making a better rendering of the core of Christianity than his brother
priest. Talk about irony.
Marie
Marie L. Foster
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