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...mystic of this century, had been given leave from Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky to participate in a conference of monastic leaders near Bangkok. The trip was also to be a long-awaited personal encounter with the spiritual disciplines of the East, particularly the esoteric forms of Buddhism that Merton wished to explore in India with the exiled lamas of Tibet...
Within the University are represented Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, the Divine Light Mission, the Process, agnosticism, atheism, and religious apathy. The Committee on the Future of Memorial Church has begun to consider the University's response to that diversity. It is a consideration that deserves far more public attention than it has received...
...playing vagabond who once infested my Adams House suite for several weeks. He slammed chords out of his guitar at any hour, refusing to go to the music room because he claimed he lost his inspiration by the time he got there. I've heard he since converted to Buddhism, more lately to record-making and Capitalism. With their devotion these people might find something meaningful in Godspell. For the rest of us it's vacuous...
...current fascination with Buddhism in the U.S. centers on three distinctly different varieties: Zen, Tibetan and Nichiren Shoshu of America, the U.S. branch of Japan's 20th century, militantly evangelistic Soka Gakkai, which bears little resemblance to classical Buddhism of any kind. Nichiren Shoshu claims more than 100,000 members in the U.S.-mostly neat, middle-class individuals who commit themselves to hour after hour of chanting the sect's brief ritual prayer, often for the material prosperity and success that they believe such chanting brings...
...more serious objection to Western religious infatuation with the East, claim other critics, lies in what they see as an inherent opposition between Eastern and Western spirituality. Zen Master Philip Kapleau disdains Christian enthusiasm for Zen and other Buddhism. "There is no God concept in Buddhism," he says flatly. Both Buddhist and Hindu paths, some Western theologians worry, may lead to a kind of quietism and otherworldliness that remove the spiritual person from any part in the struggles of society...