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Is Buddhism a Religion? Kind of...
Published in the Shambhala Sun (November 2013)
"Being crazy in love with awakening and committed to it for every being in the universe is a pretty strong religious impulse. Yet the koans and other traditions in the Buddhist big tent undermine attempts to solidify religion around that impulse. We don't always succeed, but the fact that some keep trying is one of the powerful potentials of Buddhism: being deeply religious, without religion."
