Richard Gere vs Stephen Batchelor
we only got behind from saying a Dalai Lama, fellow Georgian, Alice Walker of The Color Purple fame, as well as Richard Gere, internationally eminent film actor, social activist, as well as philanthropist.
The review hold during Emory University called, The Creative Journey asked a question: How do a humanities assistance us to express, or maybe to uncover, our devout yearnings, questions, or certainties?
A small over dual hours there wasnt a dull or tedious impulse during a conversation. Richard Gere mostly served as a matter which helped to have a review profoundly informative, down to earth, as well as lively. Alice Walker hold a core who during times we saw as a Buddhist nun who had much wisdom to share. As usual, if you have never seen a Dalai Lama in person, he is a great stand up comic in further to being sagaciousoh, as well as compassionate!
But what we wish to criticism upon since Emory University will have a total review upon a Internet, is Richard Gere in contrariety to Stephen Batchelor. (I know this sounds weird, but greatfully bear with me.)
Like his mentor a Dalai Lama, Gere is not without humor as well as compassion. He is also utterly intellectual. But Gere is also very respectful of Buddhism.
During a review during Emory, it unexpected dawned upon me which Richard Gere aint no Stephen Batchelor. The dual have been worlds detached in my opinion. we have read dual of Batchelors books, Buddhism Without Beliefs as well as Confession of a Buddhist Atheist. To be frank, Batchelor is perplexing to criticise BuddhismGere is not. Gere never became a Buddhist priest similar to Batchelor. Gere still practices Buddhism as a layman. Batchelor disrobed twice, once as a Tibetan priest a alternative as a Zen monk. Apparently, Batchelor found Buddhism to be inadequate. He wrote books insinuating which Buddhism needs to be modernized in such a way w! hich it isnt based upon karma, rebirth as well as Mind (Batchelor scouts Mind in Confession of a Buddhist Atheist upon pages 6768). Gere never wrote any books vicious of a heading principles of Buddhism.
If we had to collect in between a dual who competence best protect Buddhism it would be Richard Gere not Stephen Batchelor. Also, we resolutely hold Alice Walker would protect Buddhism, too, who being a great Georgian holds all religions in tall esteem.
What irritates me about Stephen Batchelor is which he entered Buddhism with his supposed Western prejudices as well as left Buddhism with them still intact; who now feels it is his duty to save Buddhism by ridding it of old Hindu superstitions so which it will, supposedly, be similar to a strange Buddhism of Gautama which is utterly modern teaching, essentially, which when youre dead, youre dead.
