[Buddha-l] Five Buddha Families (was: Enneagram-L)

[Curt Steinmetz]

The Five Buddha Families was one of the first things I thought of when 
the initial topic of the Enneagram of Personality came up. Thanks for 
raising this!!

I love Chogyam Trungpa's book on the Five Buddha Families: "Orderly Chaos":
http://www.amazon.com/Orderly-Chaos-Mandala-Principle-Dharma/dp/0877736367

But what I got from that book had little to do with "personality types". 
What I liked most of all was Trungpa's focus on the samsaric aspect of 
things, rather than the nirvanic, because we obviously live in samsara, 
not nirvana: "The idea of enlightenment is born out of confusion."

Curt

Christopher Fynn wrote:
> I've seen almost nothing on this list but this thread on the Enneagram 
> for the past two or three weeks. What's so special? Buddhism has plenty 
> of well developed personality typing & categorizing systems of its own 
> based on things like the Abhidhamma, the Five Buddha Families and so on.
>
> Meanwhile people are still busy slaughtering each other in Gaza.
>
> Chris
>
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