Hi Marsh. Liked your posting about Patricia Monahan,nicely written. Is she a paintress?/writer?
We are having the first Belgium covering white christmas since 1964, i was 5 yrs old then. And now its snowing and freezing for 22 days without stopping, what a traffic jam. I don't celebrate it , but nice to see it, the country covered in white. Adrie 2010/12/25 MarshaV <[email protected]> > > http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-MISC/101801.htm > > > > Greetings, > > This is a very interesting article addressing both the Daoist point-of-view > (represented by Zhuangzi) and the Buddhist point-of-view (represented by > Nagarjuna) on the subject of truth versus no-truth. Here is a few > paragraphs: > > "To realize that there are no things is not to float in a porridge where > each spoonful is indistinguishable from the next; it is to store away in the > Gate of Heaven which remains no-thing even as all things arise from it and > transform into each other... If we replace "things" in the previous sentence > with "words", what would that imply about language? > > According to Graham, grasping the Dao is a matter not of "knowing that" > but of "knowing how," as shown by the many craftsmen Zhuangzi is fond of > citing. This distinction is not as useful as one would hope, but it is > useful to consider: what would "knowing how" with words be like? It is no > coincidence that Zhuangzi himself provides one of the greatest examples, and > not only for Chinese literature. Clearly there is a special art to this as > well, which is not completely indifferent to logic and reasoning as we have > come to understand them in the West, yet which is not to be completely > identified with them. One of the delights of the Zhuangzi for Western > readers is the way its polyvocal text disrupts our distinction between form > and content, rhetoric and logic -- a bifurcation which may be not "natural" > but an unfortunate legacy of the Western intellectual tradition." > > > > Marsha > > ___ > > > 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 > -- parser 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
