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From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Alan vs. the One True Way
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Date: Wed, 5-Sep-84 18:22:09 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  5 18:22:09 1984
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From Kenn Barry (ames!barry):

> I think that you will find that the emphasis in many forms of Hinduism and
> Buddhism is less on good works, than on personal enlightenment.  They
> emphasize the illusory nature of the physical world, and the need to see
> through these illusions.

One writer (I forget who) has commented that "In practice, neither [Hinduism
nor Buddhism] pays the slightest attention to what goes on in the world today."
Another writer named Doug Dickey commented that, especially in the 1960's, many
people who were sincerely concerned about social injustice and world problems
turned Eastward for help, but came to believe that the world was an illusion --
and thus turned away from the battle for social justice et al. altogether.
Is the, not only physical, but emotional suffering of a starving person only
an illusion?

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-- Jeff Sargent
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