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**rionetrozasa** · 07-19-2011, 11:22 AM

I'm not sure I would extend the definition of superstition to cover everything from art to storytelling to the making of statues. People in the pre-modern era were more at home with imaginative and mythopoeic forms of expression; they did not feel themselves confined, as many of us moderns do, to a dreary literalism. And it's not as if the psychological needs which you mention have disappeared; rather, they've become fodder for the advertising industry.

To me, the above is reads convoluted; contradicted.

It seems to defend superstition yet speak as though there is no more superstition in the modern world. This is contradiction. This is unreality.

Superstition in the modern world is no different to when the Buddha was alive. There were believers and non-believers then as there is now.

Superstition is to be immersed in things unverified.

Thus, such defending of superstition make little sense at all; similar to imaginings about Buddhadasa, by those who did not know him, did not meet him, never heard him speak, rarely read any of his books.

To quote supermundane suttas about attachment to views is of little benefit when one cannot understand them, let alone when one struggles to speak only about what one has experienced for oneself.

07-19-2011, 11:22 AM	#36
rionetrozasa Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 385 Senior Member	I'm not sure I would extend the definition of superstition to cover everything from art to storytelling to the making of statues. People in the pre-modern era were more at home with imaginative and mythopoeic forms of expression; they did not feel themselves confined, as many of us moderns do, to a dreary literalism. And it's not as if the psychological needs which you mention have disappeared; rather, they've become fodder for the advertising industry. To me, the above is reads convoluted; contradicted. It seems to defend superstition yet speak as though there is no more superstition in the modern world. This is contradiction. This is unreality. Superstition in the modern world is no different to when the Buddha was alive. There were believers and non-believers then as there is now. Superstition is to be immersed in things unverified. Thus, such defending of superstition make little sense at all; similar to imaginings about Buddhadasa, by those who did not know him, did not meet him, never heard him speak, rarely read any of his books. To quote supermundane suttas about attachment to views is of little benefit when one cannot understand them, let alone when one struggles to speak only about what one has experienced for oneself.
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