On 7/18/11 2:22 PM, "Ham Priday" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Eastern mysticism seems to be more about > psychology and the art of self-control through meditation than about > philosophy or metaphysics. > > Pirsig allegedly got his inspiration for the MoQ from Zen Buddhism. But > when he and Marsha (who also studies Orientalism) conclude that there is no > self, I begin to despair that there is any hope left for Western Philosophy.. Dave Or, oh horror, the real current Dalai Lama on the Today show, today, talking about the US debt limit debacle saying, "No matter what, Americans must not lose their SELF-confidence." I once paraphrased to Marsha that I saw him in a TV clip snap at a questioner who asked him some question about the Buddhist principle of "no-self."I said, because I did not have access to the clip, He said something like (and this really pissed her off), "If you have no self, who is it that is going to change?" Apostasically your, Dave 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
