The Faith to Doubt

The way of the Buddha is a living response to a living question. Yet whenever it has become institutionalized, its vital response has become a well-formulated answer. The seemingly important task of preserving a particular set of answers often causes the very questions which gave rise to the answers to be forgotten. Then the lucid answers Buddhism provides are cut off from the stammering voice that asks the questions. And these practices are just as applicable, just as fruitful, no matter what your belief frame might be.