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Jake,<br>
What, properly, is Buddhism?<br>
-Claudia<br>
On 7/18/2011 4:05 PM, Christina Olson wrote:
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type="cite">The most offensive aspect of this whole thing is that
Buddhism is getting practiced as a religion.
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Jacob
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<div class="im">On 07/18/2011 06:16 PM, Jason Dusek wrote:<br>
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 21:26, Michael C. Toren <<a
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wrote:<br>
>> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:35:30AM -0700, Rameen
wrote:<br>
>>> It seems like the main issue is that the
Church class was<br>
>>> being rearranged.<br>
>><br>
>> No.<br>
>><br>
>> The main issue, for many people, was that the
shrine was being<br>
>> used in a religious context.<br>
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> That this is an issue is a concern of mine. If it
was, so what?<br>
> A space that can accept so many other things can not
accept the<br>
> exercize of the Buddhist religion? I don't see on
what basis we<br>
> can do that. Personal dislike of religion?<br>
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The "so what" is that some people are not comfortable with
it -<br>
especially given the example of "how" it was done. You seem
to<br>
understand the latter but take issue with people taking
issue in the<br>
former case. Huh.<br>
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> The Rinpoche is not representative of organized
religion in any<br>
> sense; by that I mean, there is no lineage of Asian
Buddhism to<br>
> which he can be assigned, despite his adoption of the
manner and<br>
> titles of a few different lineages. There is thus no
real<br>
> exercize of religion here; so what should we call it?<br>
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The issue is not a matter of organisation. It does not
matter if you<br>
accept their "faith" or "practice " or whatever you'd like
to call it.<br>
<br>
Rinpoche's actions sound annoying and incompatible with
Noisebridge. It<br>
appears that his conflict resolution skills are also
incompatible with<br>
Noisebridge. Perhaps I'm mistaken?<br>
<br>
Obviously people aren't happy with the Rinpoche's
appropriation of the<br>
space for whatever spiritual or non-spiritual quest he's
undertaken.<br>
<br>
( His crazy faith looks just as crazy as every other from
where I'm<br>
sitting. )<br>
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All the best,<br>
Jake<br>
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