Western Buddhism will inevitably be a synthesis of . . . [various] great wisdom traditions. It is already happening. This need not be a watering down or a mixing up of different teachings. We can practice each of them in its own integrity and come to a genuine depth of understanding. But when we see them all as skillful means for awakening, rather than as absolute statements of truth, we stay free of the sectarian divide that has plagued so many spiritual traditions and come to the central points common to all of them. This can be the great gift of our culture to the long historical sweep of the Buddha's teachings.
— Joseph Goldstein, One Dharma