Theos-Talk Archives (December 1998 Message tt00147)

>So why then are we calling each other evil, fallen, ignorant, etc.?  In a
>search for truth, different vantagepoints are opportunities to better scale
>the mountain, not pull each other down.
>
>Rich Taylor


Rich, thanks for the excellent post. In spite of what Leon
and others may think, I love HPB and Theosophy or I would
not have stayed with it for over 30 years as I have done.
But I also have spent years studying Buddhism, and especially
the Tibetan and Zen schools, and have found some apparent
disconnects between Theosophy and these schools. I have
never claimed that one was right and the other wrong. But
I find some Theosophist don't even want to discuss these
differences at all. Rich touches on one serious problem that
we should all think about: the fact that Buddhists themselves
won't become Theosophsts because of these discrepancies.
Now it may be that some of these will never get resolved,
but the atman vs anatman disconnect has been discussed
here over the years, and I think that we have already resolved
it to some extent, which suggests that at least some of these
disconnects CAN be resolved if we all work together.

Jerry S.