Re: The Asian mind and the Western mind
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Originally Posted by aron
One of the interesting things about culture in general, and religion in particular, is that we build shrines to stuff from days gone past that we never would allow in present time. So we had all these sisters in the LC narrative that would never be allowed to function today. M Barber was only one of them... I remember Peace Wang, Dora Yu, etc. I forget all the names that were reverently cited in the LC lineage. Probably none of them could exist in the present organization.
I think Jesus mentioned something about building shrines to martyred prophets. Quite similar. We eulogize stuff we'd never allow today. Welcome to planet earth.
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Great points.
And lest you forget another sister ... Madame Jeanne Guyon, the 17th century MOTA ...
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