Does Buddha have a dog, if so what's it's name, and is it a perfect dog? (ie
doesn't chew the furniture, crap on the floor or bite the neighbours' kids
unless so instructed)
Actually, I'm not just being facetious; the abstraction of the 'doggishness
of the dog' and where does it exist and so on is bound up with these
'perfect forms' of Plato's reckoning, along with the notion of
'properties'and where do they live, and do they only exist when manifest, so
that the chair is only a perfect chair if someone uses it as such; damn!
we're back to Berkely again!....- it's a perect circle!
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Prince" <deprince@bellsouth.net>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: 11 October 2000 00:55
Subject: Re: MD 1+1=2
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> Peter said:
> >>I think you've rather succinctly said some thing I was trying to get at
:
> maths is more absolute and therefore less 'real', than 'reality'. Thus,
for
> example, a circular thing is 'never' a perfect circle. Only a perfect
circle
> manages this.<<
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>
> That is a good point. Absolute can only occur in the realm of human
> imagination. Perfect is a very good example. I have often thought of
Plato's
> idea of forms. It always leads me back to the concept of perfect. Common
> sense dictates that nothing is perfect. If the only way a chair can be
> perfect is to be imaginary, then there is a problem. You just can't sit in
> an imaginary chair. Thus not even imaginary chairs are perfect, therefore
> nothing can ever be perfect. Yet...
>
> If nothing can be perfect, then the term loses its meaning. Except that I
> can tell you that this chair I'm sitting in is perfect. I am both sitting
> and comfortable and this chair performs its duty perfectly. Everything is
> like this. Everything is perfect just as it is. So nothing is perfect and
> everything is perfect. Does a dog have Buddha nature?
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