Dana, First, I want to thank you for your prior post about what to do when a standard sitting practice feels stale. Very helpful~ I normally would not comment on this one, as I don't have an opinion either way, but your emotional "vestment" in this does interest me. In my training, I've learned that when we react very stronly to something, we are confronting an issue that can teach us even more about ourself. I call it the shadow-self. So while I don't want to provoke angst, I'm wondering what IS so disgusted and irritating for you about this. Is it wrong-- and so why? Why would it matter if it was valid-- or just valid to others? There is an old saying-- "The liklihood something is right increases in direct proportion with the intensity someone is trying to prove it wrong". Please shine the mirror on it, if you will;) Kristy
--- On Tue, 2/8/11, Dana S. Leslie <[email protected]> wrote: From: Dana S. Leslie <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Zen] Re: Zen and the art of happiness To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 7:32 AM PLEASE! Don't get me started on Zukav, Capra, or any of that ilk. They seem to think that, if they can show that physics and Zen, Daoism, or whatever, yield the same worldview/analogous worldviews, they've 'proven' something profound about the nature of reality. The worst sort of quasi-mystical reductionism / scientific realism! And, I think, those particular -isms, along with ANY other ontological theories, are SO FAR from a satisfactory philosophical theory of EITHER the empirical sciences OR of Zen, Daoism, whatever, that . . . I can't express my disgust! But, there, you see, you got me arguing 'isms, drawing distinctions, etc. "DON'T DO THAT!" shouts my internal Zen master, smacking me with her Keisaku. <grin> Dana ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill!" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 4:24 AM Subject: [Zen] Re: Zen and the art of happiness > Brett, > > I haven't read Zen and the Art of Happiness. > > I have read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It's one of my all > time favorites. > > I have also read The Dancing Wu-Li Masters by Gary Zukov. It's about > Buddhism and quantum physics. > > ...Bill! > > --- In [email protected], "artist" <brettalancorbin@...> wrote: >> >> I was wondering if anyone out there have read the book Zen and the art of >> happiness by Chris Prentiss, and wondered what people on this group think >> of what he is saying about quantum physics. >> Brett. >> > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are > reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > __________ NOD32 5855 (20110208) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > >
