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Mekong meditations
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BRITISH converts to Buddhism have always irked me. Their belief
seemed so nebulous as to be virtually no belief at all - a cop-out
against any faith with strict rules and eternal damnation for those
who don't accept its truth. At their best, western converts to
Buddhism seem to want the kind of paganism that promotes an
appreciation of the balance of nature and the need to be nice to
people - with the faint smell of incense making the matter more
attractive than the whiff of woad accompanying ancient British
elemental faiths. Books such as Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums did little
to disabuse me ...
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