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**carpartsho** · 05-09-2010, 12:47 PM

The explanation of "Buddha" as the patterns and processes of the natural world clearly reflects the Dharma and is consistent with the teachings.

It reminds me of something that Gregory Bateson said: "The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think."

(Picky, picky...but it would have been even clearer to have identified the "historical" Buddha as the mythic conceptual device that "he" is).

05-09-2010, 12:47 PM	#5
carpartsho Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 501 Senior Member	The explanation of "Buddha" as the patterns and processes of the natural world clearly reflects the Dharma and is consistent with the teachings. It reminds me of something that Gregory Bateson said: "The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think." (Picky, picky...but it would have been even clearer to have identified the "historical" Buddha as the mythic conceptual device that "he" is).
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