From: Matt Kundert (pirsigaffliction@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Jan 26 2005 - 18:19:01 GMT
Marsha,
Marsha pressed:
No really, how would the Buddha and Eastern philosophies answer your
questions, and why?
Matt:
Well, I'm no expert and I can't answer in any Eastern idiom, but I imagine
the response would start off by grasping the skeptic's proffered nettle and
saying, "Yes, the knowledge which you are after is an illusion. Which makes
your questions wrong-headed." I think most Eastern philosophies accept the
concept of _maya_, which I believe says that the world we apprehend through
our senses (which is the only world Westerners commonsensically believe in
post-Enlightenment) is an illusion. From there I think the response would
trail into the mold of saying that it is the exact search for these answers
which causes a type of suffering and that if you cease your desire for those
answers, you are one step closer to reaching Enlightenment (Buddha-style).
Is that what you are looking for?
Matt
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