On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 12:30:12 +0900, Eric Takabayashi  ...
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>Brett Robson wrote:
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>> On 8 Feb 2004 04:21:48 -0800, Brett Robson  ...
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>> >I have studied Buddhism in Nepal and Thailand and most recently in Takaoka
>> >(Japan). What passes for Buddhism here bears little resemblance to Buddhism.
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>> Although by "study" I don't mean I was a monk or a Dr Buddhist.
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>I met a woman with a shaved head who called herself a monk, who had come back
>from South Korea where she studied "real Buddhism".

Well it is closer to India so it is /more/ real.


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>As for her own Japanese sect, she said one could become a priest after a one
>week training session in Kyoto.
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Staring at the floor crosslegged does take a while to get right.

I've talked to a few people and several of us have achieved flashes of
enlightenment. One friend was washing dishes (at a monastery in Thailand) when
he became transfixed on his duty.  I achieved something similar in Nepal but I
think it was altitude sickness.




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