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From: "Jed Rothwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: Creationism (was Re:OT: periodic table)
Harry Veeder wrote:
"To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower . . .
ANOTHER case of Misleading Vividness. When will they learn?!?
Sorry Jed, this is a bit of poetic license. The grain of sand is a sample of
the World, and if you study it in sufficient depth you will discover very,
very much about the physical universe. The wild flower is Life and Nature at
work, apart from any human attachment or significance-assignment. Again, if
you studied it in suffiicient depth you would connect with all Life. That
perception is available to everyone, and not necessarily associated with
any doctrine or concept of God -- which are human fabrications and thereby
grossly limited. In Buddhist tradition, there is the Flower Sutra. When the
time came for a lesson for the waiting monks, the Buddha held up a single
flower.
Mike Carrell
- Jed
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