[Buddha-l] Enneagram-L

[andy]

On Monday 12 January 2009 06:12:35 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
>
I have been avoiding chiming in on the numerology thread, no doubt from shock 
at Richard's credence.   Everyone knows that the sacred number in Buddhism is 
eight, not nine!  And it's not just a Chinese thing, or I think it's not.  
Four Noble Truths, Eightfold path, right?  No wonder Jung took it to 16, a 
natural progression.  But I am still attached to the lucky seven of European 
traditions, or at least craps.    More than that, I should be astonished at 
the lack of completeneness with Ennegrams, because as every good Pythagorean 
should know, the whole number is 10, the decad that is equilateral (on every 
side, or is that redundant?).   Only Plotinus deals with the number nine, and 
that is just an artifact of editing, most likely.   So in conclusion, just let 
me say that as far as personality types go, I am an eleven.  You see, most 
amplifiers only go to ten, but ours go all the way to eleven.  Thus said 
Spinal Tap, and thus I have heard.