Comments on: make it your own http://dhammaseeker.com/2007/05/24/make-it-your-own/ You get what everyone else gets - you get a lifetime Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:45:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Palehorse http://dhammaseeker.com/2007/05/24/make-it-your-own/#comment-3972 Palehorse Fri, 25 May 2007 18:41:36 +0000 http://dhammaseeker.com/archives/313#comment-3972 [quote] If I wished to take the results of my philosophy as the standard of truth, I should have to concede to Buddhism pre-eminence over the others. In any case, it must be a pleasure to me to see my doctrine in such close agreement with a religion that the majority of men on earth hold as their own, for this numbers far more followers than any other. And this agreement must be yet the more pleasing to me, inasmuch as in my philosophizing I have certainly not been under its influence (emphasis added). For up till 1818, when my work appeared, there was to be found in Europe only a very few accounts of Buddhism, … . – ’’The World as Will and Representation’’, Vol. 2, Ch. 17 Arthur Schopenhauer [/quote] [quote]
If I wished to take the results of my philosophy as the standard of truth, I should have to concede to Buddhism pre-eminence over the others. In any case, it must be a pleasure to me to see my doctrine in such close agreement with a religion that the majority of men on earth hold as their own, for this numbers far more followers than any other. And this agreement must be yet the more pleasing to me, inasmuch as in my philosophizing I have certainly not been under its influence (emphasis added). For up till 1818, when my work appeared, there was to be found in Europe only a very few accounts of Buddhism, … .

– ’’The World as Will and Representation’’, Vol. 2, Ch. 17
Arthur Schopenhauer
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]]> By: DhammaSeeker http://dhammaseeker.com/2007/05/24/make-it-your-own/#comment-3960 DhammaSeeker Fri, 25 May 2007 00:57:58 +0000 http://dhammaseeker.com/archives/313#comment-3960 Perhaps there is hope yet. Perhaps there is hope yet.

]]> By: Gabe http://dhammaseeker.com/2007/05/24/make-it-your-own/#comment-3959 Gabe Thu, 24 May 2007 23:15:32 +0000 http://dhammaseeker.com/archives/313#comment-3959 Interesting. Several of the things I've been reading about Christianity have been emphasizing the same thing, though instead of lands they've been exploring the understanding and practice of Christ's teachings in a post-modern world. Interesting. Several of the things I’ve been reading about Christianity have been emphasizing the same thing, though instead of lands they’ve been exploring the understanding and practice of Christ’s teachings in a post-modern world.

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