From: MarshaV (marshalz@charter.net)
Date: Tue Aug 02 2005 - 10:00:31 BST
Greetings Wim,
>Aren't Taoism and Zen-Buddhism different religions??
>Maybe Zen & Tao underpin your understanding of the MoQ (and maybe even
>Robert Pirsig's), but does that imply that they should underpin mine??
I am not a Buddhist, or a Toaist. I can only say the Philosophy of the Toa
and Zen Buddhism represent a very different world view.
>Aren't there different possible routes to the same mountaintop?
Of course.
>What criticism of mine of the MoQ are you referring to? I don't think I'm
>very critical of it, certainly not of its foundations.
The criticism that doesn't understand it's Eastern philosophical
underpinnings.
>What made you understand that you are connected to the whole? Re-connecting
>can be understood as re-cognizing...
Everything and not everything. The whole and not
whole. Hmmm. Meditation and Mushrooms.
>I compared the functions Quakerism performs for me with the functions you
>described Zen performs for you. I don't pretend to understand how Zen
>performs those functions and don't think I need to.
What would be the harm in some research?
Curiosity is said to kill the cat. But then it has nine lives. Meow.
Marsha
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