Posted by Farmer on September 04, 2011 at 09:59:55
In Reply to: Re: Turtle Feet posted by CB on September 04, 2011 at 07:49:23:
Sounds very interesting...the book would have a chance with me being read ; ) (mostly a time-factor)...since there are many common points...even as a gift for others...who are on the Buddhist-"trip"...which are quite a few.
On the other hand, Indians are nowadays not too attracted to it (I guess, being "conservative"...regarding the custom/religion mostly of the "clan"), though their land gave birth to that religion..."funny"...in TFI we made it on the visa-excursion to Gaya...and Bodhgaya is really very close...but we never made it there...totally "in line" with seersighters or sightseers..Berg-boogey-letter...same for Agra and the Taj Mahal etc....nowadays I would take a look...if otherwise possible.
Before joining...it was the religion which had interested me the most...the Hindu-gods-confusion was worse for me than the concept of the trinity.
By the way...people in India...with rather "secular" thinking, who are against the ill - my take - of the caste-system...take to the stances of Dr.Ambedkar, who rather took to Buddhism
Probably you know all that...then it is for other readers...may be ; )
I do remember the "sigh" of an American Buddhist monk, who was interviewed...him also entering at early age some Indian monastary.He did sigh somewhat, that salvation/enlightenment/relief from suffering etc....was still so far away....that I read before joining TFI!!!
That is for me the core essence/or rather lack of it....being in the theoretical long distance.
Even while in TFI I managed to read the biography of Saddhu Sundar Singh...a must read I also consider the book: death of a guru
The life and conversion of Bakht Singh is also quite interesting: