Comments on: Where Buddhism Helps: Action with Equanimity http://unionindialogue.org/paulknitter/2010/06/06/where-buddhism-helps-action-with-equanimity/ Paul Knitter's multifaith perspectives Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:50:01 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: cantueso http://unionindialogue.org/paulknitter/2010/06/06/where-buddhism-helps-action-with-equanimity/comment-page-1/#comment-403 cantueso Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:24:52 +0000 http://unionindialogue.org/paulknitter/?p=112#comment-403 Jeez. But is that compatible? The little I read about Buddhism does not sound like it goes with the Christian world view. JPII said Buddhism's negative view of the creation contradicts the Christian and Biblical idea of the Creator.That is in the "Threshold of Hope", the little autobiography of JP. Elsewhere, written by a Buddhist, I read that Buddhism sees human indivudality as being similar to the light created by a Bengal match .... (I am not a native speaker of English. What do you call those large matches used by kids as fireworks: you light one and swing it in circles to "draw" a circle of coloured light in the night air?). Jeez. But is that compatible? The little I read about Buddhism does not sound like it goes with the Christian world view. JPII said Buddhism’s negative view of the creation contradicts the Christian and Biblical idea of the Creator.That is in the “Threshold of Hope”, the little autobiography of JP.

Elsewhere, written by a Buddhist, I read that Buddhism sees human indivudality as being similar to the light created by a Bengal match …. (I am not a native speaker of English. What do you call those large matches used by kids as fireworks: you light one and swing it in circles to “draw” a circle of coloured light in the night air?).

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