[Buddha-l] Re: Vipassana?

[Bruce Burrill]

At 11:57 PM 10/18/2005, you wrote:
>The cross-pollination of all these Buddhist cultures has worked in both
>directions. Zen teachers learned about all the many exercises included
>in the four foundations of mindfulness, and the Goenka outfit has
>learned from Zen and Tibetan Buddhism the marketing value of claiming to
>have an unbroken secret lineage of uniquely pure practice going all the
>way back to the Buddha.


I don't know if it fair to pick on poor Goenka for holding to a 
literaist belief about the purity of his tradition, but Goenka is 
only one aspect of the vipassana tradition in the US. At IMS they 
have been very open to teachers of other traditions.