Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 10:55:20 -0400 Subject: zen From: mindstorm-AT-usa.pipeline.com (crispin sartwell) wrote: >This sounds very like the zen concept (at least as i understand it) of >enlightenment of being a channel through which the world flows. One >of the problems i have always had with this though is the withdrawal from >the world zen methodologies would seem to impose. i think that though there are various forms of buddhism that *do* recommend withdrawl from the world, zen does just the opposite: recommends total immersion, from using modest forms of labor and craft as meditation to agitating for peace (like thich nhat hanh). certainly i don't see any withdrawl from the world in deleuzian concepts like flow or bwo, but then i don't see that much zen in them either. crispin -- ..................................................................... try to do whatever happens. -- .................................................................... try to do whatever happens. ------------------
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