[MD] Speed of Lighting, Roar of thunder...

[Krimel]

>> [Krimel]
>> I see the resolution of those opposites in the opposite way. I see the
>> beauty in a well sculptured grill. But more importantly I see the
> resolution
>> of East and West in the Kulpian account of Illusion or Maya.
>> 
>> Not this, not that but something...
> 
> [Dave]
> Amen. 
> 
> Western Panacea Buddhism. Buddhist practice is way, way, too hard and time
> consuming. Surely just believing and repeating translations and
commentaries
> on their written dogma is sufficient for enlightenment.
> 
> [Krimel]
> Actually Dr. Hoffman developed a pill that can compress 40 years of
chasing
> Buddha into a single evening and you don't even have to learn a foreign
> language.

Marsha:   
Well, take a look at those that follow American Pragmatism and Radical
Empiricism.  
How well have they fared?

[Krimel]
Poorly I'd say. In fact I've said so at length, ad nauseum.
It seems to me, to be a classical case of top-down driven rationalism
pretending to be empirical. Apologetics; or willfully embracing delusional
incarnations of Maya.