Ed, I'll respond only to my comment which was in support of one of Chris' comments (not all of them). His comment and my response was:
[Chris] I was arguing that reality cannot be divided into two distinct things, people and nature... [Bill!] I'll second that! I support Chris' statement because of two reasons - one logical and one alogical*: Logically nature and people are not two different things. People are a subset of nature, as is everything else. To separate people from nature is setting up a perspective that people are in competition with or worse yet are in opposition to nature. A perspective such as this (as is the perspective of many environmentalists and all conservationists) is not an effective approach to deal with environmental issues. Alogically* (from a zen perspective) it is just another dualistic concept. It separates the One into Many: nature/people, self/other, good/bad, up/down. ...Bill! *alogical: WITHOUT logic, not bound by logic, not able to be measured by logic [I made up this word]. Contrast with 'illogical' which means NOT logical or the OPPOSITE of logical, which is not the meaning I want to convey since NOT itself is a logical operator. __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5558 (20101023) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
