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**Zpxbawtz** · 03-04-2011, 02:57 PM

I.Should we explore all the different Buddhist traditions or - just get to know and practice one properly first? I should think this is to be ventured only by those who are well grounded in their own first.
Then again, this is not a dogma and I am not Pope Pius X

2.Do you think its ok to take the parts we like from different traditions, and mix them up together? I tend to view them all as connecting parts of the same Buddha Legacy/Tradition...not traditions/legacies...
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipit....1-6.vaji.html
But in whatsoever Dhamma and Discipline there is found the Noble Eightfold Path, there is found a true ascetic of the first, second, third, and fourth degrees of saintliness. http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipit....072.than.html
'Those who teach a Dhamma for the abandoning of passion, for the abandoning of aversion, for the abandoning of delusion — their Dhamma is well-taught.

Great Tsongkhapa had this to say:
'They have studied much yet are poor in Dharma
Blame it on their not taking the Scriptures as instructions'"

03-04-2011, 02:57 PM	#16
Zpxbawtz Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 660 Senior Member	I.Should we explore all the different Buddhist traditions or - just get to know and practice one properly first? I should think this is to be ventured only by those who are well grounded in their own first. Then again, this is not a dogma and I am not Pope Pius X 2.Do you think its ok to take the parts we like from different traditions, and mix them up together? I tend to view them all as connecting parts of the same Buddha Legacy/Tradition...not traditions/legacies... http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipit....1-6.vaji.html But in whatsoever Dhamma and Discipline there is found the Noble Eightfold Path, there is found a true ascetic of the first, second, third, and fourth degrees of saintliness. http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipit....072.than.html 'Those who teach a Dhamma for the abandoning of passion, for the abandoning of aversion, for the abandoning of delusion — their Dhamma is well-taught. Great Tsongkhapa had this to say: 'They have studied much yet are poor in Dharma Blame it on their not taking the Scriptures as instructions'"
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