Reading lately L'Enseignement du Bouddha published in 1966 by the Fondation pour la promotion du Bouddhisme (Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai) in Tokyo, just to see if it translates. It does. But I've run across an "error" (if that's what it is) in my Buddhism, which, si je m'y cramponne, will prevent my ever finding an issue en ce monde: Affirming that everything comes from hasard, without cause or condition. Absolutely, having long ago read David Hume's withering analysis of cause and effect, and absorbed much positivist philosophy since, I do believe, without thinking about it much, that chance and uncertainty govern the universe, and that causality (in any sense other than habitual association) can never be demonstrated. And, I mean, how primitive, how Aristotelian, how quaint to assume that it ever could be demonstrated. Jesus. And to assert that so soberly rational a refusal to believe in causality is an error of the same order as a belief in Destiny or a Pancreator is, to my avowedly Occidental discriminating mind, disgustingly sloppy thinking. I thought Buddha had more sense.