Quoting Heather Perella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> > > > > > >      [Platt did say]  
> > > > > > > > I'm sure Buddhism is real to its
> > > > practitioners just as Mohamed is real to
> > Muslims.
> > > > > 
> > > > >      [SA then said] 
> > > > > > >      What does this mean?  Is everything
> > real?
> > > > > 
> > > > >       [Platt then answered]  
> > > > > > No. Does my answer say everything is real?
> > > > > 
> > >       [SA then asked] 
> > > > >     What is real?
> > > 
> > >      [Platt the said] 
> > > > Good question. Pirsig tackles the question in
> > Lila. 
> 
>      [SA previously] 
> > >      Where in Lila does Pirsig tackle this
> > "question in Lila"?
> 
>      [Platt]  
> > Sorry. I meant to say "Lila's Child." Check it out
> > yourself.
> 
>      Sorry, don't have "Lila's Child".  So your
> leaving me out in the cold on this one.  Your
> espousing a book to provide an answer of yours, but
> this is your answer so I wouldn't mind hearing your
> answer from, well, you.
 
Really you should get a copy of "Lila's Child." Much of this discussion about
whether the "self" is real or an illusion is based on Pirsig's comments there 
and
in other places. You won't find much about the Buddhist "self" in Lila, which 
makes
me wonder how important to the MOQ is it?    



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