Re: Extro-Buddhism

From: Ian Goddard (Ian@Goddard.net)
Date: Sun Oct 04 1998 - 02:50:07 MDT


At 12:31 AM 10/4/98 -0500, Natasha Vita More wrote:

>>>Overcoming suffering through spirituality ...
>
>> IAN: Overcoming suffering is not pseudoscience
>
>Sorry, you misquoted me.

  IAN: I didn't misquote you. I guess you mean
  to say that I did not address what you said,
  but I did... My point was that suffering eli-
  mination can occur and modalities offered by
  spiritual traditions such as yoga, meditation,
  and psychological analysis do work and are not
  pseudoscientific per se. Those are the remedies
  for suffering offered by Buddhism and I cannot
  think what else you may have been referring
  to in Buddhism as being pseudoscientific
  methodologies for overcoming suffering.

  What is the "spirituality" of Buddhism
  but the beliefs and practices of Buddhism?

  Heck, even believing in phoney Gods may overcome
  suffering and also not be pseudoscientific in that
  belief has real physiological effects on the mind.

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