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While the majority of the New Religious have remained in one or another of the faiths of their fathers, others are looking for guidance to the great Eastern religions-mostly Hinduism and Buddhism-and their modern Western offspring...
...Hindu imports spin on and on in the catalogue of current U.S. spiritual movements. So, too, do the offshoots of Buddhism, which began in India as a reform movement within Hinduism in the 6th century B.C. Gautama Buddha, the Enlightened One who founded the Buddhist family of religions, de-emphasized the Hindu gods; some schools of Buddhism-Zen, for instance-still reflect a kind of agnosticism. But the basic spiritual focus in the many forms of Buddhism is the attainment of nirvana, an ineffable state of liberation and union with ultimate reality in which suffering is eliminated, and compassion...
...story stands out in this collection and that evenness of quality is the strongest testimony of Hesse's failure to mature as a writer. Over five decades he remained "true to himself" too well. For all of his travels to the East, his studies of Buddhism and mysticism, and his purported interests in Jung and Nietzsche he could only touch the surface of the mood of alienation, which Joyce and Eliot plumbed so fully...
...book reading list stunned and amused a good many of the students. The list includes classical philosophy such as Aristotle's Ethics and Plato's Dialogues as well as many more modern works on the religous philosophies of Zen, Buddhism, and Yoga. The 24 texts cost $49.70 at the Coop...
However, with this book, Castaneda seems well on his way to creating a new mythology designed for the Western hemisphere. Don Juan's teachings can be analyzed as a melange of Zen, Sufism, the dream control of Tibetan Buddhism, and other disciplines. But this essentially Eastern message is transmitted by a member of the fierce Yaquis of northern Mexico, the only unconquered tribe of North America. Don Juan is no pacifist and no vegetarian--he is a warrior. The natural world of predator and prey is his pantheon: the cactus, rattlesnake, coyote, mountain lion--all of which are equal...