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"Whether Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, or Christian, [sacred texts] are never pristine: every page is smudged with the handprints of its creators through the ages. This is not meant to belittle the claims made...it is simply an effort to remind the reader that we are concerned here in the first instance with literature"
— Oct 15, 2017 03:27PM
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"A reader encountering some nice words on a page may get a sense of 'spiritual uplift' for a moment, but until 'laborious skillfulness' becomes the operative term...he or she will remain 'like a cowherd counting the cows of others,' as the Buddha put it, cozying up to the matter but not penetrating it"
— Oct 15, 2017 04:25PM
