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# Re: Hello from a newbie

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- Subject: Re: Hello from a newbie
- From: "kxcorinth" <kxcorinth@...>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 00:14:14 -0000
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    Hi Uthlagus,

    I cannot really address much of your letter as I am new to IIH also.
    But I wanted to comment on what the Buddhists told you about magick.
    I also have always wondered why Buddhists don't talk more about the
    mystical traditions in the religion.

    The Dalai Lama comes from Tibetan Buddhism, which as you certainly
    know, has an esoteric streak in it coming from its synthesis with
    Bon I suppose. But the Dalai Lama does not reference much magick or
    mysticism in his writings we get here in the West.

    I think this is because, like Buddha, the Dalai Lama was very
    concerned with getting a message to the common person. The common
    person is not going to try to enter an initiation into any esoteric
    tradition. Because of this I think that the main thrust of Buddhists
    in the West is just to reach the common man with the core of the
    dharma. The core of the dharma requires no twist of the Western
    rational mind like magick does.

    In the end, any special 'powers' you might develop will not
    enlighten you by themselves (I suppose), but that is not to say that
    they cannot be a sort of yoga, a method to experience being part of
    the whole.

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