SA: While on the topic of Mahayana in another thread, I was following its' historical lineage into Zen in Wikipedia, and I came upon this quote on Dogen:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D?gen "A master stylist, D?gen is noted not only for his prose, but also for his poetry (in Japanese waka style and various Chinese styles). D?gen's use of language is unconventional by any measure. According to D?gen scholar Steven Heine: "Dogen's poetic and philosophical works are characterized by a continual effort to express the inexpressible by perfecting imperfectable speech through the creative use of wordplay, neologism, and lyricism, as well as the recasting of traditional expressions" SA continues: I looked the word "neologism" up, and found a very funny definition for people who are creative. If you go to the link, then creativity in a nelogistic sense is spelled out, but then noticed defintion #4 as follows: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/neologism "4. Psychiatry. a new word, often consisting of a combination of other words, that is understood only by the speaker: occurring most often in the speech of schizophrenics." SA continues: Hmmmm... I guess I'm a schizo. lovely, oh so lovely, SA ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
