In our culture, in addition to Christianity we have the religion of psychology. What do you think of the impact of Western psychology on Buddhism in America? If you look at how Buddhism has entered into different cultures in the past, it has tended to do so by finding points of common interest within the new host culture. In the case of China, for example, Buddhism attracted Taoists, who had an interest in meditatioṇ In the secular West, it is hardly surprising that Buddhism attracts those interested in psychology. The Buddhist analysis of the causes of suffering, for example, immediately
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