Very profound, Platt, There is one absolute simplicism which I've carried with me ever since I joined, which is this: While it might be true that we can never know for sure whether or not our thoughts and concepts connect us with an external reality - it's equally true that we can never know for sure that they don't. But we do know, that if we pragmatically assume that they do, we act and think with more purpose and clarity, and thus it's best to go that way rather than the more picky and nihilistic route of assuming that thought is not a path to reality.
Thought is the only path we have, to the only reality we can ever know. John On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Platt Holden <[email protected]> wrote: > Marsha, > > Thank you. I'm astounded by the coincidence that recent posts from you, > Mark > and John under different subject headings all focus on thought's limits and > the Buddhist belief that, as Pirsig wrote, "Thought is not a path to > reality." > > 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/md/archives.html
