xmca@weber.ucsd.edu writes:
>what about the Buddhist
>dogma (affirmed by the Tathagata himself) that only male humans can attain
>enlightenment.
isn't that the truth - and because of that i always worry about whether
any of the buddhist texts are of value? it's a quandry for me, though not
evident in my signature.
> The privileging of human existence doesn't seem to be
>strictly limited to western religions or philosophies.
agreed - i was focusing on western ideas in response to a western text.
>
>
>As to the "intentionality", well that depends on how you understand that
>intentionality--Brown doesn't seem to imply that anyone or anything made
>the
>universe that way, rather, that is the way it is if one follows out the
>descriptions of the physicist in the manner he has outlined.
>
>I wouldn't take it so seriously though, as I said it was an aside.
i was mostly just surprised - and your further explanation is a greater
demonstration for me of the perils of attempting to understand a fragment
of a text without the greater context.
similar to the struggle we're having with the Leontiev text -
again,
phillip
/ \ / \ / \
/ \ / \
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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