On 5/18/2019 11:47 AM, Stephen Curtiss Rose wrote:
There is the All or the Infinite (Dodson) or God or any other name for an inner light in each one of us which is connected to the absolute. Anything else complexifies, or even worse, erects a route by which enlightenment must be attained with reference to things that are not absolute but claimed to be.
I agree. Buddhists use the analogy of a finger pointing to the moon. The writings are like the finger. If you concentrate too hard on the finger, you won't see the moon. Many years ago, I attended an informal seminar with Houston Smith as the speaker. HS was a professor of religion who had written books comparing different traditions. Buddhism was one of his specialties. In the talk, he described a summer that he and his wife had spent at a Buddhist monastery in Japan. But he admitted that his wife had attained Enlightenment (as certified by the head of the monastery), but he didn't. HS himself, with his deep scholarship, may have been captivated by the finger.
One reason it is difficult to arrive at unanimity is that often words or phrases become absolutes when they are patently not. Enough already.
I very strongly agree. John
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