J-A, You might be right, but then it could be they both have something to offer. I've never met a sitar play and who knows what magic sitar players might possess, or what type of smoke might be passing through the waterpipes.
So great! I love the guitar… I am now a Joe Bonamassa fan. Why can't I purchase this cut on iTunes. Desire. Damn! Marsha On Mar 23, 2012, at 6:23 AM, Jan-Anders Andersson wrote: > Hi Marsha > > I think our Western type of experience has something to tell the guys on the > streets of the East with their waterpipes and handmade sitars: > > http://youtu.be/RVGrsH57Pl0 > > best wishes > > Jan Anders > > > 21 mar 2012 kl. 22.44 skrev [email protected]: > >> This is supported by Herbert Guenther 204 (1957, p.144) who adds: >> >> Experience is the central theme of Buddhism, not theoretical postulation and >> deductive verification. Since no experience occurs more than once and all >> repeated experiences actually are only analogous occurrences, it follows >> that a thing or material substance can only be said to be a series of events >> interpreted as a thing, having no more substantiality than any other series >> of events we may arbitrarily single out. >> >> After some thought, I think Guenther?s comment is valid as I can?t think of >> any events that are repeated exactly. Moreover, like the concept of ?self?, >> there?s no absolute objective rule to judge when one event starts and >> another stops. This means that any concept or term is fundamentally >> indeterminate, imprecise and, as time passes, increasingly less useful. >> >> >> >> On Mar 21, 2012, at 4:53 PM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> 5.8.4. THE MOQ, DUKKHA AND AVIDYA (IGNORANCE) It?s fairly obvious from >>> reading Pirsig?s texts that SOM is perceived by him as an example of >>> ignorant thinking. Briefly, this is due to such systems ignoring the >>> reality of Dynamic Quality. Why this is particularly ignorant is explained >>> by the ?Three Aspects? of the Cittamatra school of Mahayana Buddhism. 201 >>> >>> Williams (1988, p.83) states that the First Aspect refers to the falsifying >>> activity of language which implies independent and permanent existence to >>> things. As Hagen 202 (1997, p.30) notes, one of the most fundamental truths >>> noted by the Buddha is that all aspects of our experience are in constant >>> flux and change. According to the Buddha, when a person ignores this truth >>> they subject themselves to dukkha. >>> >>> _Dukkha_ has been notorious in evading exact translation to English. Hagen >>> (1997, p.25) notes that the word is originally derived from a Sanskrit word >>> referring to a wheel out-of-kilter. 203 >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mar 21, 2012, at 4:49 PM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> "Like Pirsig, Nishida follows the thought of Nagarjuna and rejects the SOM >>>> ?object logic? conceptualisation of reality. Instead, Nishida uses the >>>> more Eastern orientated ?concrete logic? (or ?logic of nothingness?) which >>>> perceives reality as holistic and constantly changing; where identities >>>> are momentary (and, therefore, always ?negating? themselves). A theme >>>> prevalent in Nishida?s ?concrete logic? (as well as the MOQ and much of >>>> Buddhist thought), is the recognition of the ?self? as just a useful >>>> abstraction." >>>> >>>> (MoQ Textbook) >>>> >>>> >>>> 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 >>> 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 > > 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 ___ 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
