Sunday, March 20, 2005

There is no such thing as the Buddhadharma
On some educational channel, the narrator talked about some Dutch dude named Tasman who landed on and named New Zealand. The Maoris of New Zealand, it is said, sailed in a fleet of large canoes from Polynesia. Several families sailed in each canoe, and the families of each canoe, according to lore, became one of the Maori tribes of New Zealand. What did the Buddhadharma have to do with them?

I read on some Christian's blog about what a remarkable sight it was, back in early 2004, when Thich Nhat Hahn and the Plum Village community went on a symbolic alms round in Southern California during the Rains Retreat. And he wrote something like it was too bad that none of them would ever see Heaven unless they put their faith in Jesus Christ and stop leading others astray. What does the Buddhadharma have to do with Mr. Christian?

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