Carrying the Message

Another issue is already here, which reminds me I have not yet written the letter I intended to extend my greetings to our brother in Colombo, Ceylon, who wrote in the Grapevine recently. In his letter he asked for concrete suggestions from other faiths on "God as we understand Him." My own faith is a combination of the four noble truths and the eightfold path handed down by Buddha, coupled with the twelve steps of AA. For me each complements the other, and I, too, feel that the Twelve Steps are the very foundations upon which the Buddhist philosophy is built. There seem to me to be parallels in their development. My Christian friends, inside AA as well as outside, have been very accepting of my interest in Buddhism, and even encouraging. Until I read that letter from Ceylon, I had no opportunity to know how anyone else associated with Buddhism felt about the AA philosophy.