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**Promotiona** · 04-02-2010, 04:30 AM

The decontextualized, literalized surface reading doesn't ring true to a population that is fairly well educated but who haven't woken up fully from the unconscious mind-numbing cloud of religiosity that pervades all of modern thought (the lingering effects of institutionalized and deeply internalized Christian theology)...this state of limbo creates much confusion on the one hand, and entrenched belief on the other - both states of mind that the Dharma was originally intended to dissolve.

beautifully put, captures the results of viewing Buddhist orthodoxy through the prism of Western Christian influences with the result being a distorted mirror image of Western faiths.

It is often difficult to discern what is central and what is peripheral in the teachings - are we destined to discard too much of what is integral to the Buddha's teaching in order to make it fit in with today's climate of thought ?

04-02-2010, 04:30 AM	#22
Promotiona Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 324 Senior Member	The decontextualized, literalized surface reading doesn't ring true to a population that is fairly well educated but who haven't woken up fully from the unconscious mind-numbing cloud of religiosity that pervades all of modern thought (the lingering effects of institutionalized and deeply internalized Christian theology)...this state of limbo creates much confusion on the one hand, and entrenched belief on the other - both states of mind that the Dharma was originally intended to dissolve. beautifully put, captures the results of viewing Buddhist orthodoxy through the prism of Western Christian influences with the result being a distorted mirror image of Western faiths. It is often difficult to discern what is central and what is peripheral in the teachings - are we destined to discard too much of what is integral to the Buddha's teaching in order to make it fit in with today's climate of thought ?
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