hello everyone
Donny writes:
Taoism and Zen, especially, are quite
anti-social, anti-technology, anti-scholastic, and anti-intellectual. All
that stuff leads you further away from at-one-ment and further into the S-O,
I-This thought trap.
Donny, you will not learn about zen in any book and you cannot study it at
all in any fashion as you do philosophy. your experience with 'The Tao of
Physics' reminds me much of Pirsig' song-on-the-radio analogy. when you
first read the book, it was Dynamic and appealing. but soon your mind
enclosed that Dynamic Quality and turned it into static quality...something
you knew already.
Donny, i am not really qualified to speak of either zen or taoism, but i can
say from experience that zen is both like and unlike everything you write it
is, and yet nothing you could write can ever really define zen. we would
all do well to remember Pirsigs advice..."But be careful to
follow the scientific rule of saying no more than you really know."
(From Ant McWatt's paper- Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality).
best wishes,
glove
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