23.05.09
Hitchens and Rajneesh
Hitchens and Rajneesh
You may want to read this first.
http://darwiniana.com/2009/05/23/allen-vs-myers-on-new-atheists/
19.05.09
Selection from book on Social Darwinism
A selection from From Darwin to Hitler
One of the most suspicious things about Gurdjieff, and then Ouspenksy, is the inlfuence of Darwin, and Social Darwinism, disguised behind a lot of rhetoric and some fashionable chitchat about Nietzsche.
17.05.09
Consciousness and the scale of world historical evolution
16.05.09
The life-field
This didn’t get posted before and was in draft bin:
Comment on The Life-field
James said,
07.05.09 at 6:50 pm ·
Interviews with parapsychologists and skeptics:http://www.skeptiko.com/
15.05.09
DU: Introduction
I have the final template up and ready, and can start on the Introduction to a Dramatic Universe series, http://eonic-effect.net/DU.htm
In some ways I am reluctant to do this at all, since I am not attempting to promote Bennett’s thinking.
The point rather is to show some of its context, and provide a critique for anyone ensared in some of its confusions.
Nonetheless, Bennett’s book has some remarkable features, in part because it takes ideas from an ancient tradition that had nothing to do with Ouspensky/Gurdjieff.
Maybe, a draft introduction in the next few days.
14.05.09
Link to Rajneesh essay
Comment on the Case of Rajneesh
Anthony Thompson said,
14.05.09 at 2:03 pm ·
Hi.My name is Anthony thompson. I am a research scholar and I have written an article contradicting Christopher Calder´s “Osho and the lost truth”. Mr. Calder´s article against Osho is quoted everywhere in the web as an insider´s account on Osho. I refute his points and clarify many issues please read my full article at:
http://truthaboutosho.blogspot.com/
Greetings
anthony
DU series
I mentioned the issue of further projects. I just set up a new template, like that for the G con series on Gurdjieff: http://eonic-effect.net/DU/
I may write this as a set of posts and then put them into the template.
13.05.09
Blog traffic
This blog has recently migrated to a new locale, you probably noticed nothing, but the new system allows interior stat recording, using webalizer, which, despite its flaws, is probably better than the sitemeter now on the front page, and which I will soon remove.
By that reckoning the traffic is much greater than I had thought, about a hundred to a hundred and fifty visitors a day, and about three hundred page views.
It is hard to know precisely, but the archives on this blog are being read vigorously, which is encouraging and grounds for some new projects,
12.05.09
Buddhism vs dhamma
Dead Wood, a comment from James
James said,
11.05.09 at 6:43 pm ·
“But Buddhism has always changed shape according to place and time. Impermanence, as one of the three marks of existence, must apply also to Buddhism itself. It accepts, even demands, that every culture must find its own unique expressions of awakening.”All fine and well, but the fact remains that the meditation monks couldn’t care less about “Buddhism” and would gladly admit that 99% of it is complete bullsh*t that wouldn’t lead anyone to self-realization:
“The survival of Buddhism and the survival of the Dhamma are two different things. People like Ajaan Mun — willing to make whatever sacrifices are needed to discover and practice the Dhamma on its own terms — are the ones who have kept the Dhamma alive. Of course, people have always been free to engage in Buddhist traditions in whatever way they like, but those who have benefited most from that engagement are those who, instead of reshaping Buddhism to fit their preferences, reshape themselves to fit in with the customs and traditions of the noble ones. To find these customs isn’t easy, given the bewildering variety of traditions that Buddhists have spawned over the centuries. To test them, each individual is thrown back on his or her own powers of relentless honesty, integrity, and discernment. There are no easy guarantees. ”
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/customs.html
11.05.09
Dead wood
Dawkins strips away religion’s dead wood
Dawkins is doing religion a favour – by exposing faith and spirituality to criticism, he paves the way for their renewal
This is a hopeful thought, but naive in the end: we can see that many would like nothing better than a one-dimensional ‘new age’ religion to come into being.
The Gurdjieff’s are waiting, to turn the new believers into ‘cattle’.
Ashoka and dates of the Buddha
Comment on Dates of the Buddha
Rivista di Studi Sudasiatici, I (2006)
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The Role of the So-called Aśoka Inscriptions in the Attempt to Date the Buddha
Herman TiekenAbstract
The date of the Buddha is calculated on the basis of the date of Aśoka’s consecration. According to one Buddhist tradition this event took place 100 years after the Buddha’s death, according to another tradition 218 later. Aśoka’s dates, in turn, are calibrated by those of the certain Greek kings mentioned in Rock Edict xiii. However, in the present article it is argued that the “Aśoka inscriptions” are not necessarily by Aśoka and that the name Aśoka found in some of the inscriptions is a later insertion.
Full Text: PDF
07.05.09
Dates of the Buddha
http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic138396.files/Buddha-Dates.pdf