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**Lerpenoaneway** · 04-01-2010, 11:33 PM

My question and thoughts, influenced by others like yourself, is concerning how much we can expect articulation and expression of the essential principles taught by the Buddha need to change to be appropriate to the new situations as they emerge due to social and cultural change.

The essenctial principles cant change with cultural traits... In anthropology we learn to introduce knowledge (also knowledge understood as a new technology) dress up with their cultural traits but the core aspect cant change. This procedure its part of the reaserch project with the inmates introducing the four noble truths and the eightfold noble path not telling them it is Buddhism with all the cultural aspects of it but a way to overcome suffering mental states in their lifes with examples of their daily life in prission. And it is working well. Also our Roshi is very enthusiastic working time to time in this.

04-01-2010, 11:33 PM	#13
Lerpenoaneway Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 442 Senior Member	My question and thoughts, influenced by others like yourself, is concerning how much we can expect articulation and expression of the essential principles taught by the Buddha need to change to be appropriate to the new situations as they emerge due to social and cultural change. The essenctial principles cant change with cultural traits... In anthropology we learn to introduce knowledge (also knowledge understood as a new technology) dress up with their cultural traits but the core aspect cant change. This procedure its part of the reaserch project with the inmates introducing the four noble truths and the eightfold noble path not telling them it is Buddhism with all the cultural aspects of it but a way to overcome suffering mental states in their lifes with examples of their daily life in prission. And it is working well. Also our Roshi is very enthusiastic working time to time in this.
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