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. > > > 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
