Yes, but one could understand that the author, Senzaki, was attempting at making a discernment between faith-based ideologies and a larger 'otherness' basis in cultivated spiritual experience as Sam is making these days.
Emptybill writes: This is an absurd generalization. Buddhists are full of worship & devotion to teachers/gurus and Transendent Buddhas. ---In [email protected], <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : The words “believe” and “worship” are unfamiliar to Buddhists because they do not “believe” but understand, and they do not “worship” but practice what they understand. -Nyogen Senzaki Transcendentalists and old style Quakers too. ---In [email protected], <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : Sam obviously is one of us, a transcendentalist. CDB and a few others here must be sick. ---In [email protected], <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : of a larger 'otherness', outside of rational-conscious experience: consciousness. ..his father came from a Quaker background. Harris looks to eastern religion — Buddhism, and more specifically, the mediation practice of mindfulness — as a way of finding a sense of otherness, outside of rational-conscious experience. In this view, he explains, consciousness itself is identical to the very thing one might otherwise mistake for God. The main problem, Harris believes, is that the issue is far greater than simply containing radical ideas from a handful of Muslim extremists. “If you go and read the Koran, sit back, afterwards, then honestly ask yourself: what would Muhammad want?” says Harris. “You can call this idea Islamism, Muslim extremism, Islamic terrorism, but the main point is this: it’s Islamic to the core. We [in the West] are not at war with generic extremism. We are at war with a death cult that is animated by a 7th-century approach to Islam.” ---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote : Atheist writer bravely disses Islam. He seems confused about who the aggressors are in the Israeli conflict though. Anyone would think that the Palestinians don't have the right to try and get their land back that was stolen from them in 1948, and more every year since. World must confront jihadism’s roots in Islamic doctrine, says author http://www.timesofisrael.com/world-must-confront-jihadisms-roots-in-islamic-doctrine-says-author/ http://www.timesofisrael.com/world-must-confront-jihadisms-roots-in-islamic-doctrine-says-author/ World must confront jihadism’s roots in Islamic d... http://www.timesofisrael.com/world-must-confront-jihadisms-roots-in-islamic-doctrine-says-author/ With a blend of science and secularism, Jewish-born thinker Sam Harris claims Islam is uniquely problematic as a religion in today’s world, and anyone who disag... View on www.timesofisrael.com http://www.timesofisrael.com/world-must-confront-jihadisms-roots-in-islamic-doctrine-says-author/ Preview by Yahoo
