From: tglatz-AT-mosquitonet.com
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 07:32:44 -0900
Subject: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE:Contact Improv



>About this view of "the eastern Buddhist position:" that negative
>stereotype on negativity  was precisely what certain member of the Chinese
>literati intellegentsia accused Buddhists of, off and on in varying forms,
>for as long as Buddhism has been there. Mahayana thinking (whose
>practicing sects nowadays include Zen/Chan, Pure Land and various forms
>of tibetan Buddhism) very much encourages a mode of profound engagement
>with the world.  Perhaps the notion of voidness or emptiness is what has
>put you off the track. "Emptiness" does not mean "nothingness". It means
>"empty of self nature" precisely because all things, beings, concepts and
>so on are co-dependent, and thus "full" of the stages and process that
>allow them to exist in the first place. This sort of notion of constant
>processual becoming underlay my own reading of 1000 P's and so I am
>encouraged to see that others have noticed a Buddhist tinge to the D&G
>project.

I think originally the question was, "did Deleuze ever discuss Buddhism".
And so,  you still might want to check out what DELEUZE had to say about it.
I suggest _The logic of sense_.  

Tglatz