Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:11:49 -0700
Keith Hudson wrote:
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> At 08:42 17/07/00 -0700, you wrote:
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> Cut to:
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> >The motto on the front of my sandwich board is "'Tain't what a man
> >don't know that hurts him; it's what he knows that just ain't
> >so." Intentional or not, it is a paraphrase of the zen buddhist precept of
> >not-knowing.
I'm not at all sure I have any fair sense of what buddhist
not-knowing is about. I do know that I am suspicious of the
difference in life situations between "masters" and lower initiation-
levels of adherence to the sects (not to mention that, at least in
Japan, buddhist temples often try to evade the income tax laws).
But if enlightenment is not caring what the "masters" think or
want, then maybe I do not live in total darkness.
[snip]
I find Edmund Husserl's philosophy is helpful for practical
orientation in my life.
Specifically: I tend to be generally receptive toward anything
anyone tells me that seems to me to have utterly no relation to
myself. On the other hand, I try to maintain doubt about
everything that might in any way affect me, no matter how
solid the evidence for it seems to be ("the obvious" is the
most dubious of all, but always hard to get into view).
"Yours in discourse" [which is something we can
be sure of knowing we are in, so long as we're in it --
as opposed to being sure about what the conversation is
about, which is generally more or less *un*cartain!]
+\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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