xmca@weber.ucsd.edu writes:
Paul wrote to Victor including this quote:
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> "Thus we cannot escape the fact that ther world we know is constructed
>in
>order (and thus in fact in such a way as to be able) to see itself.
> "This indeed is amazing."
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this gives the world we know a rather amazing intentionality - that the
world is constructed so that we humans can see it -
isn't this a re-run of the Ptolomaic / christian universe, where in the
planets and sun revolved around the earth because man was the center of
the universe?
further, dialectics aside, isn't the way we see the world about our
cultural historical activities, rather than the way the world _is_
constructed?
i think it is amazing that such an ancient anthropomorpic explanation is
still around.
just me -
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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