Addendum from Andre to Krimel: And why the Buddhists' compassion and humility? Because they know (not believe...they know) that we are all from the One, The Tao, Quality, God, Allah.
Krimel: They sounds like my Christian friends who claim. God said it. I believe it. That settles it. Thanks for shattering another of my illusions. Andre: My pleasure. Willblake2: My understanding (from Huston Smith, I think) is that so called Eastern Religions talk about God being part of us, ?and Western ones think of it as outside. ? Andre: Remember Phaedrus' sojourn in India, described in ZMM (through letters the narrator had read) where he had found , not only doctrinal differences between eg. Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism, but also an enormous confusion within these religions/philosophies. Paradoxes, divergences, contradictions and incongruities. The problem lies in making general statements about these things. "His problem,I think (the narrator says),was that the Indian tradition requires acceptance of it on its own terms. You don't sum it up correctly in terms of another way of looking at things.' To look at this through Western logic/reasoning is 'within an Indian way of looking at things, a lesser form of knowledge trying to contain a greater one. This lesser form of knowledge was to be transcended for an understanding of the real base of Indian philosophy. Phaedrus did not see this, and so went spinning round and round, doing Westernised generalisations on a subject that is not well rendered by Western generalisations' ( Disanto and Steele, Guidebook to ZMM p 208-9). To put this in common sense English: Is there only one way to skin a cat(with apologies to Platt's UTOU)? Is there only one way leading to Rome? Is there only one way to do the dishes? Is there only one way to fry potatoes? Is there only one way to interpret the MoQ? For what it is worth Andre 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/
