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>From: onstott@a.cs.okstate.edu (ONSTOTT CHARLES OR)
Subject: Re: Buddhism
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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 92 22:50:17 GMT

In article <1992Mar18.004449.9503@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> dlyndes@deltahp.jsc.nasa.gov writes:
>Just as most (modern) christians emphasize salvation rather than damnation,
>most buddhist writers, when discussing that issue, emphasize enlightenment
>over suffering.  They most often ignore the "suffering" aspect altogether.
>

  Good point.  As the brilliant Joseph Campbell once wrote, "For, if man
has been removed from the divine through a historical event, it will be 
a historical event that leads him back(Western Tradition--COO), whereas
if it has been by some sort of psychological displacement that he has
been blocked, psychology will be his vehicle of return(Eastern Tradition--
COO)."  Joseph, Campbell, _Oriental Mythology_

  Also, I made a mistake in my reply to Mr. Yoder.  I wrote that it
was a four-fold spiritual path that Buddha sent out on; it was, in fact,
an eight-fold spiritual path.  In this point, I was confusing Buddha
with Meister Eckhart.  Sorry for any confusion.


BCnya,
  Charles O. Onstott, III

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"The most abstract system of philosophy is, in its method and purpose, 
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                                              -- Carl G. Jung
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