I think Moose has stumbled onto some good uhhm crap here. If I recall my
"History of Eastern Art" correctly, the Buddah's big deal was the lily,
floating on a pond. The roots (meaningfully, symbolically) run all the way
through the dark, cold water, into the dank, filthy, slimy, silt-ridden bottom
of the lily pond. The devine has roots (literally) in the crap.
I really like some of the off-list uhm crap like the audiophile stuff, and of
course my never-ending bragging about the venerable Volvo 240. Tolerance is
good.
All the best,
Lama
> From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> This is in symbolic
> agreement with the Buddist idea, at least in some Tibetian Buddism, of
> the manure field of life, consisting of all the 'shit' we have lived
> through, which is absolutely necessary as the fertilizer from which
> movement toward enlightment grows. So, if philosophy is indeed crap,
> it's in good company!
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