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The Importance of Non-Identity in Buddhism
60 years ago I wanted to lead a totally Buddhist life as near to the life of the Buddha as I could at that time. Of course I was in India as an Englishman as a foreigner and I threw away my identification papers so that I was as it were anonymous. Subsequently I discovered that most Buddhist monks in the east put intensely nationalistic and this rather disappointed me. But I still uphold this ideal that we should try to see ourselves as Buddhists, as citizens of the world and not identify ourselves too closely with any particular nationality or culture Or conditioning of that kind. And there was something else. Since I was a wanderer, a parivajat gracica, I
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