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Bearcats and trips to Europe. She studied Sanskrit at the University of Chicago, and grew interested in Buddhism after her family doctor lent her a book on the subject. By the time she was in her early 205 she had decided that "Christianity fell far snort of what I expected from religion...
...Married to a wealthy Chicago lawyer, she dug deeper into Buddhism, decided that what she wanted was enlightenment, and the way to enlightenment was meditation. "But to find out how to practice meditation in America was an impossibility." On a trip to China and Japan in 1930, she and her husband met Zen Master Dr. Daisetz Suzuki, and Ruth asked him how one went about learning to meditate. "If you can come back to Japan and study for some time." he said, "perhaps you can find...
Marxist Buddhist. U Nu has also declared that "Marxism and Buddhism are incompatible," but to Burma's surprise the side he chose to join was that of Marxist Thakin Kyaw Dun and his strongly left-wing socialist followers. U Kyaw Nyein emerged as the rival leader, backed by U Ba Swe, Minister of Defense, and Thakin Tha Kin, ex-Home Minister who had been fired by U Nu. Both sides agreed to an equal division of the party's real estate and money, and prepared for a showdown in the August session of Parliament, with the losing side...
...Unless Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and other sects are merged into or replaced by a great World Brotherhood, sectarianism will continue to divide the world, isolate peoples, and stimulte conflict which is deadly dangerous in the atomic-space age. (Sometimes it is inter-sect strife which causes destruction and death, as in India. Sometimes it is the point of view of a sect or sectarian which hinders effective action, as with the student in my Survey of Civilization course who wrote, "World peace is an ideal which can never be reached, for when Christ cast Adam...
Slater previously lectured on logic and the philosophy of religion at Rangoon University, Burma, and gradually became known as an authority on Theravada Buddhism. He is honorary Canon of Christ Church Cathedral in Montreal...