Friday, April 28, 2017

Uncritical Willingness


I am sometimes alarmed at the uncritical willingness of Westerners to accept at face value whatever is uttered by a Tibetan lama or Burmese sayadaw, while they would be generally skeptical were something comparable said by a Christian bishop or Cambridge don.

~Stephen Batchelor, in Secular Buddhism



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