On Thu, 13 Apr 2000 13:46:10 BST "Nick Preece" <nick_hmac@hotmail.com>
writes:
> Lurker Nick here
>
> >From: jeffrey e zweig <hungryghost1@juno.com>
> > "...However, it should in no way be associated with that
> great body of
> >factual information relating to orthodox Zen Buddhist practice.
> It's not
> >very factual on motorcycles either."-Author's note (Pirsig)
>
> There've been a couple of references suggesting some folks here see
> a
> difference between MOQ and Buddhism. I'd have thought the
> differences
> between them were - in the opinion of both - unimportant..? The
> language of
> a mystical viewpoint and its methods of conceptually dividing
> reality are
> "the hand" while the DQ, Tao, Dharmakaya, Brahman, Great Spirit is
> the
> "moon".. As "things", there are differences between them and
> similarities,
> and whether you focus on them as different or as the same must hinge
> on the
> intellectual environment from which you're contemplating them. For
> most of
> us presumably that's a history of SOM based analysis so they must
> appear
> primarily the same..
>
> ______________________________________________________
Dear Nick,
As a newcomer to this list, I'm at a loss to comprehend all of the
abbreviations used by the "old timers." Heck, I don't even know what moq
means. Matter of quality, perhaps? So I'm lost when I come across
abbreviations like SOM, I'm hopelessly lost. Would you be so kind as to
educate this newcomer?
Call me simple-minded (a zen compliment), but when I see Zen in the
title, I expect Zen in the book. As it were, I was reading a book of Zen
quotes before I dialed up my e-mail. Yes, Pirsig is represented in it.
Stuff about climbing a mountain. However, there are some quotes Phaedrus
would have been wise to heed:
"We should take care not to make the intellect our God; it has, of
course, powerful muscles, but no personality."-Albert Einstein
"Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit."-Saint-Exupery
"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that
uses it."-Rabindranath Tagore
Cheers,
Jeff
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