Comments on: General Theravadics http://blog.wolfganglukas.com/2006/09/22/general-theravadics/ (a metaphysical drama in approx. 3,1415926535897932384626433832795 acts) Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:33:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Seeker http://blog.wolfganglukas.com/2006/09/22/general-theravadics/comment-page-1/#comment-1072 Seeker Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:56:10 +0000 http://blog.wolfganglukas.com/?p=45#comment-1072 The messenger is not the message... The messenger is not the message…

]]> By: April http://blog.wolfganglukas.com/2006/09/22/general-theravadics/comment-page-1/#comment-143 April Mon, 13 Nov 2006 03:18:19 +0000 http://blog.wolfganglukas.com/?p=45#comment-143 Thanks for this post. Very thought provoking. I went to the GS website. And was surprised to find a lot of the things that I think about were put into words on that site. Thanks! April Thanks for this post. Very thought provoking.
I went to the GS website. And was surprised to find a lot of the things that I think about were put into words on that site.

Thanks!

April

]]> By: Akuma http://blog.wolfganglukas.com/2006/09/22/general-theravadics/comment-page-1/#comment-77 Akuma Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:35:53 +0000 http://blog.wolfganglukas.com/?p=45#comment-77 maybe this is why wolfgang put the "proper path" into quotation marks. aside from that i absolutely agree on your conclusion. for me, there is no religion, philosophy or technique that will teach me life. that is the reason why for me too there is no right or wrong. personally, me and my wishes in life are leading to different paths which at some points cross and intertwine each other. the "masterpath" (or call it the "proper path") to fulfillment (which - mostly monotheistic religions - promise) is in my opinion an illusion. because of that i never had an urge to search for it. "Do I need an authority figure to tell me to ignore authority figures?" hits the mark perfectly. maybe this is why wolfgang put the “proper path” into quotation marks. aside from that i absolutely agree on your conclusion. for me, there is no religion, philosophy or technique that will teach me life. that is the reason why for me too there is no right or wrong. personally, me and my wishes in life are leading to different paths which at some points cross and intertwine each other. the “masterpath” (or call it the “proper path”) to fulfillment (which - mostly monotheistic religions - promise) is in my opinion an illusion.

because of that i never had an urge to search for it. “Do I need an authority figure to tell me to ignore authority figures?” hits the mark perfectly.

]]> By: Ettsem http://blog.wolfganglukas.com/2006/09/22/general-theravadics/comment-page-1/#comment-58 Ettsem Mon, 02 Oct 2006 20:59:23 +0000 http://blog.wolfganglukas.com/?p=45#comment-58 Quote: Unfortunately the source ... has been composed in an entirely different world: the cultural, social, scientific, linguistic and philosophical context can hardly be compared to that of our present time. I largely wasted 20 years on Zen because I couldn't get past the cultural differences. When I finally did start to understand bits of it (thanks to two books written by Americans), it seemed to me that Zen was designed for a person who has Eastern attitudes towards authority, progress, meaning, individuality, logic and so on. But I live in Canada, not Japan. My "political corrrectness" told me that people are people and it shouldn't matter where they were raised. Well, yeah, okay, but I'm not really concerned about the people but the conditioning, which is coloured by culture. Zen was the most sensible thing I could find at the time, and it had a really cool name. But Zen just wasn't doing it for me. Eventually the question presented itself: why am I looking for a particular "school"? Or to put it another way ... Do I need an authority figure to tell me to ignore authority figures? These days I consider a wide range of opinions. They're all partially wrong, and so am I. But at least I'm making progress after going nowhere for over two decades. Quote: Unfortunately the source … has been composed in an entirely different world: the cultural, social, scientific, linguistic and philosophical context can hardly be compared to that of our present time.

I largely wasted 20 years on Zen because I couldn’t get past the cultural differences. When I finally did start to understand bits of it (thanks to two books written by Americans), it seemed to me that Zen was designed for a person who has Eastern attitudes towards authority, progress, meaning, individuality, logic and so on. But I live in Canada, not Japan.

My “political corrrectness” told me that people are people and it shouldn’t matter where they were raised. Well, yeah, okay, but I’m not really concerned about the people but the conditioning, which is coloured by culture.

Zen was the most sensible thing I could find at the time, and it had a really cool name. But Zen just wasn’t doing it for me.

Eventually the question presented itself: why am I looking for a particular “school”? Or to put it another way …

Do I need an authority figure to tell me to ignore authority figures?

These days I consider a wide range of opinions. They’re all partially wrong, and so am I. But at least I’m making progress after going nowhere for over two decades.

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