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Wright's is a Buddhism almost completely cleansed of supernaturalism.
"My initial reaction is like everyone else's — this is a good thing," said Ethan Nichtern, 32, a Buddhism teacher in the East Village.
As he described it, he founded his organization after a decades-long quest for a Buddhism that would lead practitioners directly to wisdom.
How did we go from "Be here now" to "R.O.I".? The journey from a Buddhism antithetical to Western go-getting has been charted quite consciously by a number of influential practitioners in the baby-boom generation.
A nice twist, really: a do-gooder American not bringing the Protestantism of his rector father to a missionary life, but rather taking on the task of purifying a Buddhism he has never practiced.
If it proves to be so, it is a Buddhism that will necessarily encompass a political dimension, a degree of social awareness and critical self-reflection that complicates the meditative, soft-grained, interiorized Buddhism that predominates in this show.
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Writing on Bank Underground, a blog where Bank of England staff can challenge prevailing orthodoxies, Dan Nixon wondered if rather than shopping our way to satisfaction, a Buddhism-inspired trend of mindfulness has taught us that less is more.
In keeping with his philosophy, Koh's artistic practices have no limits: he showed a 4,000-watt 4,000-wattt for his first solo exhibition at the Whitney earlier this year and is currently working on a Buddhismoviepired show that wilightature around 1,000 miniature white statues.
Seconding these efforts, Stephen Batchelor has articulated an atheistic Buddhism, a vision echoed by many who advocate for meditation while dispensing with religious Buddhist beliefs, like reincarnation.
Owen Flanagan asks: can a "naturalized buddhism" can lead to happiness?
This is a pragmatic Buddhism, and Wright's pragmatism, as in his previous books, can touch the edge of philistinism.
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