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

[Richard Hayes]

On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 11:26 -0500, Curt Steinmetz wrote:
> 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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Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico