A Secular Saint (The Irish Times interview)

[TipperaryAnn]

Hartmut,
That is amazing and so funny !!!
I wonder who started it - not the Irish Times I hope?

To be honest, that's exactly what it sounds like...

[IMM]

Though I also wonder about the constant attempt to secularize Leonard, to distance him and his work from anything religious and spiritual.

Perhaps from any religion of certainty, though not from any of the spiritual sweet unknowing.

“People ask about the imagery all the time but sometimes it’s enough to say that the imagery has its own validity.”

Words worth a thousand pictures.

[TipperaryAnn]

Perhaps from any religion of certainty, though not from any of the spiritual sweet unknowing.

Agreed! That's the trouble with so many religious sects, they are so certain, so dogmatic, about matters where there can be no certainty.
Leonard, with his wide experience of various religions, never sounds dogmatic. And he recently said that Roshi, his Zen master, never talks about religion.