[Buddha-l] Re: Mahayana taught by the Buddha?

[Richard P. Hayes]

On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 10:54 +0700, Randall Jones wrote:

> Question:  Are you suggesting that the beauty of Buddhism is what grounds 
> practice?

It would be interesting to hear how different people answer this. I
suspect it depends a lot of temperament. Some folks probably find
Buddhism beautiful. Curt does, it would seem. I don't. I find it pretty
effective for what it was designed to do. I also find a shovel pretty
effective for what it was designed to do, but I rarely find myself
thinking of shovels as beautiful. Similarly, while I love mathematics, I
would never in a million years think of it as beautiful. Fun, yes.
Interesting, yes. Useful, yes. But calling it beautiful is going too
far. But then I can't think of much of anything I would call beautiful.

-- 
Richard Hayes
http://www.unm.edu/~rhayes