Hello! It's been a few months since I’ve sent out a newsletter. I got busy with travel and work, but I also took some time to rethink why I wanted to start writing to you in the first place. I started working on The Pagan to inspire myself and others to read more Indian philosophy, because I believe that it deserves the same respect given to other major philosophical traditions. Challenging myself to write long essays definitely achieves that goal for me personally, but this kind of writing reaches mainly those who already know (and love) the tradition. Also, I'm not a professor or a serious researcher - I’m just someone who is discovering most of this stuff for the first time. I want to reach people that are in a similar place to me.
Congrats on the relaunch - liking the new style. It seems to me that although Krishnamurti claimed to be speaking from a universalist position, that the idea of "Truth being a pathless land" seems fundamentally dharmic. Abrahamic and Western thought (with post-modernism being a possible exception) often pushes the idea of a singular salvation, whether religiously or politically.
For example, very famously Gandhi said "I am a Christian, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Christian, a Jew, and so are all of you", to which Jinnah replied "Only a Hindu could say that". Do you think that's true or do other spiritual traditions also have this thread of thought?
Wow, this is awesome.
Congrats on the relaunch - liking the new style. It seems to me that although Krishnamurti claimed to be speaking from a universalist position, that the idea of "Truth being a pathless land" seems fundamentally dharmic. Abrahamic and Western thought (with post-modernism being a possible exception) often pushes the idea of a singular salvation, whether religiously or politically.
For example, very famously Gandhi said "I am a Christian, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Christian, a Jew, and so are all of you", to which Jinnah replied "Only a Hindu could say that". Do you think that's true or do other spiritual traditions also have this thread of thought?