christianity and buddhism

Several times toward the end of Zen retreats we have made together, you have asked, "But what does my Christianity add to my Buddhism?" And the answer you received was, "Nothing. It's all going the other way right now." I understand that skepticism about Christianity's "adding" to Buddhism. Both of us know many fellow-Christians who are drawn to Buddhist practice, either because of an alienation from the church, or, as I believe is true for …

…Reading, Orbis). Keenan makes use of two themes: the identity between "emptiness" and "dependent co-arising" and the "differentiation between the two truths of ultimate meaning and worldly convention." The first of these themes applies "horizontally" to our being in the world and says that nothing we experience in our ordinary lives has a reality independent of the fragile network of "causes and conditions" that bring our experienced realities about. The second theme is "vertical" and