Ernie : Can now identify where my use of the metaphor seems to have come from --since it has been years and years since reading Dear Abby, viz, high school. There is a book by Archie Bahm, a professor of business ethics of all things, who wrote "Philosophy of the Buddha." That , and while wondering about versions of Christ in culture, thinking about Aesclepius, God of healing, as parallel to Jesus as healer, although I didn't use the analogy in my comments. Bahm made the point that Gautama seems to have had --for the time-- some education / training in medicine as known in ancient India, which was also a form of philosophy. Then -- clearly not now As a consequence, a good number of Sutras ( more or less like books in the Bible ) read like 500 BC medical texts when you understand the model for the writing. So, looks like I simply made the leap, easy to do considering how similar the moralities are, to Jesus as healer and Christians as doctors and nurses. Still, the way the idea came to me when it did, perfect for the conversation, well, I don't feel comfortable attributing it to myself. OK, I had something to do with it, but I just don't think the credit should be awarded to my ego. Something like that and it is more than just me, at least this is my feeling about it. Seems clear that the analogy can be developed in many worthwhile ways. The way this kind of idea came to mind, it doesn't belong to me. If others can make the most of it, more power to them. Billy =============================================== message dated 10/13/2010 2:06:17 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
On Oct 13, 2010, at 2:02 PM, Lennart Johansson wrote: > (you might be on to something here though with the "hospital" analogy). > Yeah, it struck me that this idea has real uses. Came to me out of the blue. > Would gladly attribute the source if I knew what it was. > Abigail Van Buren: “A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.” http://thinkexist.com/quotation/a_church_is_a_hospital_for_sinners-not_a_mus eum/327520.html -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
