Saturday, March 04, 2023

Don’t be taken in …

… Thomas Merton on Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

Although I maintain that philosophy needs completion by what is beyond philosophy, that maintenance is not a license to abandon rational critique.  Every sector of life requires critique, including Philosophy herself, and Philosophy is the Critic.

Merton’s The Seven Story Mountain meant a great deal to me when I first read it decades ago, as did Bede Griffiths’s The Golden String. But fame seems to have corruptedboth Griffiths and Merton.

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