From: khaled Alkotob (khaledsa@juno.com)
Date: Tue Apr 26 2005 - 01:29:27 BST
When visiting Thailand a few years back, I asked out tour guide during a
trip to the one of the Budhist temple if there was such a think as hell
in the Budhist religion, without skipping a beat, he points to his temple
with his index finger and says " this is your hell."
Afterwards I felt like the boa that swallowed a water buffalo. I had to
sit and digest, and I am still digesting.
Simple things like that, well they are not really simple, the word should
be elegant. Elegant things like that, pack in them so much. Like the
acorn that grows to be the might oak.
In a sense what he said is that YOU are the universe, you and only you is
the beginning and end in regard to your life and your actions.
No God, no Allah, no trinity, no savior, no prayers, no fasting, no one
to answer to but yourself. you are the Buddha.
He may or may not have understood the gravity of what he said, but it's
in you, it's part of you.
In a sense what Pirsig had done, is realized that the more you know, the
more you realize what you don't know. An like the old algebraic problems,
where you try to solve for "X" (zamm) and find it, only to realize that x
is made of smaller "Xs". And he race begins (lila).
Erin Wrote:
Your analogy kind of makes sense when I think about ZAMM but not when I
think about LILA. So was Pirsig being a philosopher writing ZAMM and a
philosophologer when writing LILA?
You may argue ZAMM may be more creative than LILA but that distinction
still isn't clear cut---he was still being creative when writing LILA,
some may argue even more creative despite "labeling" or "giving the
notes"
Erin
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