Eastern ways share something of the scientists spirit of openness and nondogmatism,
I have tried to show, by contrasting it with the three great forms of Western wisdom, what the Way beyond the West is all about. It exists for a minority in Asia, and I feel that in the present climate of Western science and philosophy, our great religious upheaval, and our discontent with our own traditions, it is enormously interesting and of great value to us.
I am not--I must be very emphatic about this--a missionary for Zen Buddhism or Taoism trying to convert Western people to these things.
On the contrary, I am trying to integrate their ideas with our own.
American civilization is a syncretism of cultures of peoples, and this integration of Eastern and Western ideas is simply going to happen. And it is that integration that is the Way beyond the West.
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