As introduced last week, the goal of this series is to use Buddhist thought as a mirror to help better-understand Christianity. Last time we looked at the Buddha's story and how it compared to the stories of Jesus and the major prophets of Abrahamic faiths more generally. Today we’ll shift to exploring what it was … Continue reading The Good News of Non-Attachment?
We’re at the start of a series using Buddhist teaching as a mirror to help us better understand the Gospel. But today I’d like to start by zooming out and looking at the basic canonical story of the Buddha’s life and enlightenment. We’ll see that it represents an interesting foil for both the story of … Continue reading The Buddha and the Christ
One of my favourite traditions in recent years here on the blog has been for my main Fall series to look at Christian theology through an external lens to better understand ourselves through the face of an other. This is not to ‘appropriate’ any idea as our own, but to use another worldview as a … Continue reading The Wheel and the Way: Introduction
The previous post in this series on using linguistic analogies to understand religious differences talked about the idea of language games. You may have noticed that in that post I only talked about differences within a particular religion, and not differences between religions. This was intentional. While intellectually speaking, engaging with a completely different belief … Continue reading Interfaith Learning as Foreign Language Acquisition (Languages of God, V)
After last week’s exciting foray into the Scriptures with the practice of Havruta, this week I decided to explore a practice that is a goal and ideal of most religious traditions, something that is an essential component of living a balanced and contented life in a turbulent world. This week, I explored a practice of … Continue reading Equanimity
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