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**leacturavar** · 03-22-2010, 11:42 PM

Not knowing anything about the monk, how would you define the direction he is moving in? Just curious.

Sujato is a prolific writer. One can find many essays here: http://sites.google.com/site/santipada/

But I sense these are setting up a very impressive foundation for some kind of dogma.

The Thai Forest Tradition was always Zen-like. Thailand is a Theravadin country with the same Sri Lankan (Commentary) doctrines and the Forest Tradition challenged those Commentary doctrines.

But the challenge was for the sake of facilitating insight rather than for setting up a competing doctrine or dogma.

For example, if I debate or challenge on a chatsite, my only intention is to facilitate a way of reading the suttas for the sake of insight.

Whilst Sujato is a very adept meditator and has excellent paramis (excellent metta practitioner), I cannot really put my finger on it but as I said my gut feeling about his extreme intellectualism is that.

03-22-2010, 11:42 PM	#13
leacturavar Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 488 Senior Member	Not knowing anything about the monk, how would you define the direction he is moving in? Just curious. Sujato is a prolific writer. One can find many essays here: http://sites.google.com/site/santipada/ But I sense these are setting up a very impressive foundation for some kind of dogma. The Thai Forest Tradition was always Zen-like. Thailand is a Theravadin country with the same Sri Lankan (Commentary) doctrines and the Forest Tradition challenged those Commentary doctrines. But the challenge was for the sake of facilitating insight rather than for setting up a competing doctrine or dogma. For example, if I debate or challenge on a chatsite, my only intention is to facilitate a way of reading the suttas for the sake of insight. Whilst Sujato is a very adept meditator and has excellent paramis (excellent metta practitioner), I cannot really put my finger on it but as I said my gut feeling about his extreme intellectualism is that.
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