Comments on: Secularizing Buddhism: Making it Accessible or Stripping the Roots? http://www.vincenthorn.com/2009/08/11/secularizing-buddhism-making-it-accessible-or-stripping-the-roots/ Because the Mystery is Transrational Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:53:37 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: hansen http://www.vincenthorn.com/2009/08/11/secularizing-buddhism-making-it-accessible-or-stripping-the-roots/comment-page-1/#comment-595963 hansen Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:14:32 +0000 http://www.vincenthorn.com/?p=1036#comment-595963 Vince: I'd rather leave my comment here. You are part of a new circle of people I am coming into contact with online. One thing that I feel is happening is certainly secularization, reduction of Buddhism to a stress reduction technique, pay as you go, with no community, yet another medical program, existing as a prescription, that you need to take for a cure. This model has serious flaws just as the practice of medicine today has many serious flaws. There is more energy going into the system than what is coming out. I am really looking for community that has more energy coming out than what goes in: they have the source. Personally I self-identify as a meditator, a Buddhist, a yogi, American Transcendentalist (Thoreau, Emerson), and Unitarian Christian, and a few other things. There are a group of us at UUBF. My Buddhist practice owes a lot to Theravada, a bit to Ch'an, and a bit to the Vajra too. I don't think the Chinese canon can easily be dismissed. But the core practices are pure Insight at this time. One way I establish a cultural connection, and this may at first seem trivial, is by making the tea bowl. It really is more difficult than you can imagine. I was holding the Koetsu bowl at the Freer. I suppose it is worth about 10 million? The experience was so rich you don't even think about that. You can see it at the blog site. I thought you would appreciate this since you are a Pu Erh customer. p e a c e h a n s e n Vince: I’d rather leave my comment here. You are part of a new circle of people I am coming into contact with online. One thing that I feel is happening is certainly secularization, reduction of Buddhism to a stress reduction technique, pay as you go, with no community, yet another medical program, existing as a prescription, that you need to take for a cure. This model has serious flaws just as the practice of medicine today has many serious flaws. There is more energy going into the system than what is coming out. I am really looking for community that has more energy coming out than what goes in: they have the source.

Personally I self-identify as a meditator, a Buddhist, a yogi, American Transcendentalist (Thoreau, Emerson), and Unitarian Christian, and a few other things. There are a group of us at UUBF. My Buddhist practice owes a lot to Theravada, a bit to Ch’an, and a bit to the Vajra too. I don’t think the Chinese canon can easily be dismissed. But the core practices are pure Insight at this time.

One way I establish a cultural connection, and this may at first seem trivial, is by making the tea bowl. It really is more difficult than you can imagine. I was holding the Koetsu bowl at the Freer. I suppose it is worth about 10 million? The experience was so rich you don’t even think about that. You can see it at the blog site. I thought you would appreciate this since you are a Pu Erh customer.

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