Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Middle Class Angst, The Politics of Lemmings, Part II

By Stan Goff

Click the link for a very good example of what the Buddha meant by "skillful means." While I consider Christianity a kindergarten religion for teaching ethics because of its reliance on an external authority and can easily be co-opted by the unscrupulous, it does have embedded within it higher order teachings that can lead to greater spiritual awareness as evidenced in the article quoting Wendell Berry and Martin Luther King Jr.