[Buddha-l] there he goes again (sam harris)

[Richard Hayes]

On Friday 27 October 2006 05:45, curt wrote:

> You forgot Toni Packer - she also (didn't) try the same thing - and it
> also didn't (not) work for her, too.

You apparently know something about Toni Packer that I don't know. It has been 
my impression that she has actually done quite well in disentangling herself 
from a great deal of nonsense without creating a new tangle.

> Perhaps the idea that there is something inherently wrong with "belief"
> is just another belief. It kinda sounds like it.

Yes, of course it would be a belief if one held the view that there is 
something inherently wrong with holding views. So what's your point? Do you 
know of anyone (aside from that fool Nagarjuna) who has advocated the 
obvioulsy self-contradictory position you are outlining? Or are you just out 
chopping up straw men again?

-- 
Richard P. Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico
http://www.unm.edu/~rhayes