From: Mari (mld2001@adelphia.net)
Date: Wed Dec 04 2002 - 13:17:08 GMT
Jonathan,
Thanks for a missing piece to a puzzle i've been working on.
Mari
> CAPRA
> "The basic recurring theme in Hindu Mythology is the creation of the
> world by the self-sacrifice of God - 'sacrifice' in the original sense
> of 'making sacred' - whereby God becomes the world which, in the end
> becomes again God. This creative activity of the Divine is called
> *lila*, the play of God, and the world is seen as the stage of the
> divine play. Like most of Hindu mythology, the myth of lila has strong
> magical flavour. *Brahman* is the great magician who transforms himself
> into the world and he performs this feat with his 'magic creative
> power', which is the original meaning of *maya* in the *Rig Veda*. The
> word maya - one of the most important terms in Indian philosophy - has
> changed its meaning over the centuries. From the 'might', or 'power', of
> the divine actor and magician, it came to signify the psychological
> state of anybody under the spell of the magic play. As long as we
> confuse the myriad forms of the divine "lila" with reality, without
> perceiving the unity of Brahman "underlying all these forms, we are
> under the spell of maya. Maya, therefore, does not mean that the world
> is an illusion, as is often wrongly stated. The illusion merely lies in
> our point of view, if we think that the shapes and structures, things
> and events, around us are realities of nature, instead of realizing that
> they are concepts of our measuring and categorizing minds. Maya is the
> illusion of taking these concepts for reality, of confusing the map with
> the territory."
>
> JONATHAN
> There you have Capra's definition of the mystic (Brahman is supreme) and
> logical positivist (maya is supreme). Pirsig really has introduced
> something new with DQ (lila is supreme). - Jonathan B. Marder
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> Regards to all,
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> Jonathan
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