en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/1622792 Comments by 0land http://www.buddhistgeeks.com/2010/08/the-koan-of-christian-buddhism/#IDComment95417996 I really support the statements of this poster. I guess I've just taken for granted that I've been trying ONLY to see the common ground in all traditions, and actively search for commonalities in whatever I happen to be learning about. I guess I assumed that was what anyone would be attempting to do if trying to approach truth (whatever that is). I can only do that, and then try to compare what I've determined with actual experience. Otherwise it seems that one tradition or another is just sort of "leading the witness" as it were. (Or perhaps in my case, before anyone else thinks it, leading the witless :-) When ideas, either individual or shared, become hardened, it seems to be an emphasis on differences that create those boundaries. Boundaries are where the suffering takes place, not in the shared commonalities. It seems to me that at the base there is common ground, and the difficulty arises whenever the "systems of thought" being employed at the time are obscured by overly crystallized ideas of different thinking. I've been trying to determine that common ground by being curious enough to look toward it without becoming married to any one system of thought (thanks for that phrase sharanam) and becoming to attached to the ideas presented therein. Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:51:23 +0000 http://www.buddhistgeeks.com/2010/08/the-koan-of-christian-buddhism/#IDComment95417996