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Westerners who take up Buddhist practice mostly want its test-it-and-see approach, not another religious institution.

Drawn from what Stephen Batchelor said

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religion Faith as a thing a society runs on, and what has been tried in its place.

What Stephen Batchelor actually said

  1. Stephen Batchelor British writer and teacher of secular Buddhism
    Those who adopt Buddhist ideas, values and practices today in the West are not necessarily interested in joining another religious institution. They find the Buddha’s “test it and see” approach to be perfectly compatible with a healthy scepticism.

    Where this was said

    ↗Faith and Reasonweb.archive.org

    29 May 1999

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