xmca@weber.ucsd.edu writes: (Actually, Paul wrote:)
>Phillip,
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>I think the point of the buddhist teaching on this being
>that neither agent or action cannot be understood separately. Consider:
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though not familiar with the quote you included, yes, i like the buddisht
notion that you can't tell the dancer from the dance.
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>My personal interest here being the self-annihilating dialectic of the
>buddhist teaching (dialectic of sunyata/emptiness) vs. the
>self-transcending/self-anihilating dialectic of the Hegelian tradition
>(aufhebung). Perhaps found in the contrasted understanding of sangha v.
>community/society??
i'm not sure, here, what you mean by your personal interest - are you
interested in _not_ participating in self-annihilating dialectics?
one of the aspects of chat that i like is the possibility to explicate
the irreducible tension between the individual and the social, recognizing
that they instruct, construct, reconcstruct, mediate, remediate one
another in recursive activities of interaction - Valsiner writes of
this wonderfully.
and also, yesterday's email was an electronic blunder on my part - i
keyboarded "reply" instead of "forward" - my intention being to alert a
friend, about Holland's book, who is working on her dissertation
investigating the mediating effects of the computer as tool on identity.
i suspose that if there is a web site on this topic that Nate would
surely have posted it by now. the topic being self-annihilating
dialectics.
later,
phillip
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Buddha speaking to Vasettha:
One is not a brahmin by birth,
Nor by birth a non-brahmin.
By action is one a brahmin,
by action is one a non-brahmin.
So that is how the truly wise
See action as it really is,
Seers of dependent origination,
Skilled in actions and its results.
Action makes the world
go round,
Action makes this
generation turn.
Living beings are bound
by action
Like the chariot wheel
by the pin.
phillip white
third grade teacher
doctoral student
scrambling a dissertation
denver, colorado
phillip_white@ceo.cudenver.edu
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