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Harris: "Given the degree to which religion still inspires human conflict, and impedes genuine inquiry, I believe that merely being a self-described “Buddhist” is to be complicit in the world’s violence and ignorance to an unacceptable degree". - See more at: http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/#sthash.Hbqbm55C.dpuf http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/#sthash.Hbqbm55C.dpuf Again Harris; "As students of the Buddha, we should dispense with Buddhism." - See more at: http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/ http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/ As students of the Buddha, we should dispense with Buddhism. - See more at: http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/#sthash.Hbqbm55C.dpuf http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/#sthash.Hbqbm55C.dpuf As students of the Buddha, we should dispense with Buddhism. - See more at: http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/#sthash.Hbqbm55C.dp http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/#sthash.Hbqbm55C.dpuf Harris is an enthusiastic supporter of the kill the Buddha if you meet him on the road POV. http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/#sthash.Hbqbm55C.dpuf As students of the Buddha, we should dispense with Buddhism. - See more at: http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/#sthash.Hbqbm55C.dpuf http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/#sthash.Hbqbm55C.dpuf As students of the Buddha, we should dispense with Buddhism. - See more at: http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/#sthash.Hbqbm55C.dpuf http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/killing-the-buddha/#sthash.Hbqbm55C.dpufI think there are some useful distinctions to be made in these experiences. Lumping them all together under a banner of physics poetry is unlikely to result in our understanding the differences between these experiences, and I believe those distinctions could be useful. And not in some triumphalist "one is better than another", but perhaps people may need different techniques depending on the results they are seeking or even some personal variables that we will never understand if we throw them all together. Plus I believe there is some brain study research that supports the idea that there really are differences between meditations types neurologically.
