Ron:
> Pirsig posits we are one with source, what we
> experience is patterned
> Source, from mind to matter. This concept fosters
> oneness and spiritual
> Unity. Essentialism fosters the concept of
separateness and
> the inability of reconciling this in our experience.
Talk about
> nihilism, it's a nihilist tease! Life has meaning!
Sorry But you'll never
> experience it. Talk about depressing.
SA: Exactly! This is the whole reason is avoid those
metaphysics and intellectuals that prefer separation
in life. It one event to describe how a tree is
distinction from a rock, but to declare that the tree
and rock do NOT connect in any kind of way, ANY, as in
absolutely NO way, well, that's "depressing". Thus,
the giving of compassion with wisdom applied in
certain circles of this earth. For with separation in
ones life, a sadness, a gap of cosmic proportions were
a crisis and distress ripples from such declarations.
Oh, the empathy to think that one or others are lost
in a separation where the rest of the world is in no
way able to connect with such a one... painful. Yes,
"life has meaning." Ron, with all this separation
going on, you also know a solution, the moq, which
states it has a way out of this psychological crisis
that applies madness - which in politics is known as a
nightmare (for those that remember this thread some
months ago). Ham's essentialism can't reconcile this
separateness, SOM can't reconcile this separateness,
an SOM intellect can't reconcile this separateness,
etc... As Campbell well notes as follows:
[Oriental Mythology; Chapter 5; IV]
"The term bodhisattva, 'one whose being (sattva)
is enlightenment (bodhi),' had been employed in the
earlier vocabulary of the Ceylonese Pali Canon to
designate one on the way to realization but not yet
arrived: a Buddha in his earlier lives, a Future
Buddha. In the new vocabulary of the Sanskrit canon,
on the other hand, which developed in the north and
northwest of India proper in the first centuries A.D.,
the term was used to represent the sage who, while
living in the world, has refused the boon of cessation
yet achieved realization, and so remains a perfect
knower in the world as a beacon, guide, and
compassionate savior of all beings.
For if, as the Buddha announced, there is no self
anywhere to be found, if all are already extinct, and
if what should be controlled is not the body but
thought - then why all this talk about a voyage to and
arrival at the yonder shore? We are already there.
Some, indeed, to control their minds, may have to
shave their heads, pick up bowls, hie away to the
country, and look at deer instead of men. But those
truly endowed for the wisdom of the buddha can put
their minds in order at home, and at the same time be
of help to others in the realization of the wisdom of
the Buddha in their own lived lives. For, as Heinrich
Zimmer once remarked: 'The radio station WOB, Wisdom
of the Buddha, is broadcasting all the time: all we
need is a receiving set."
wet woods,
SA
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