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Archive for March, 2009

Apologies

My apologies for not having updated for such a long time. Things have been quite busy, even at the beginning of the Honours year. I have a research proposal to write as well as an independent study unit of a 10000 word paper. But this academic year may well turn out to be the most [...]

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Tradition often gets confused with convention, in Merton’s words. Merton distinguishes between tradition, which is participation in an ancient, ever-evolving, majestic life, and convention, which is stale repetition of words and hollow gestures that can barely maintain someone’s attention for more than five minutes. Many traditions of Buddhism fall into this trap. A few bows [...]

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