Andre,

What does 'radical empiricism' mean for you?


Marsha 




On Mar 29, 2012, at 1:19 PM, Andre <[email protected]> wrote:

> Marsha to Anthony:
> 
> So what are you saying?  Does 'radical empiricism' mean only what RMP says on 
> the AHP tapes about the Zen are acceptable and communicable experiences?  I 
> was talking of my own experiences, and I am no Buddha.
> 
> Andre:
> Marsha's mission on this discuss is to explore Buddhism and the MOQ. She has 
> stated this often. From this perspective she maintains, for example, that the 
> self does not exist. It is an ever-changing pattern of... (fill in there rest 
> for yourself). A 'variation' on that is a comment made not so long ago 
> wherein she states that there is no "I" in mindfulness. (Anyone with just a 
> passing knowledge and practice of mindfulness knows this to be blatantly 
> false. Such claim is an illusion and a clear indication of self-deception.
> 
> Just for interest's sake I have counted how many times Marsha has used the 
> personal pronoun "I' over the past day-and-a-half. Thirty-four times!(I have 
> not counted the possessive "me")
> 
> Just looking at the way she deals with Anthony's comment regarding the use of 
> her(attempted)Buddhist inspired perspective ( i.e."...it is only from the 
> Dynamic viewpoint of the "World of the Buddhas" that the fundamental nature 
> of the static is indeed Dynamic.") a perspective with which she is paralyzing 
> any decent discussion, she reinforces the view that Buddhism- known as the 
> religion of NO ego- is, in her hands, the religion to EXPRESS your ego. 
> Despite her vehement denials of the existence thereof.
> 
> She defends herSELF (at least thirty-four times) by stating that the views 
> are based on HER experiences and she has let everyone here know that nobody 
> tells Marsha what to do. Its MY reality, she claims, and nobody can torn at 
> that.
> 
> What Marsha propagates is Boomeritis Buddhism: "nobody tells me what to do" 
> and "it's my fucking reality so piss off!"
> 
> Next she'll tell us that we create our own reality!
> 
> And this on a philosophical forum discussing Pirsig's MOQ. It's embarrassing.
> 
> 
> 
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