[MD] Re Proposed solution to SOL/Intellectual level

[MarshaV]

Greetings Khoo,

I will read, but, but, but,,,   


We are what we think
All that we are arrises with out thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world
-Dhammapada


What do you think?



Marsha   






On Jan 24, 2010, at 7:42 AM, Khoo Hock Aun wrote:

> But Marsha,
> 
> Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
> Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;
> 
> But there is neither East nor West. Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
> When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of
> the earth!
> 
> There is a gem of a piece on Ruddy at
> http://www.f.waseda.jp/buda/texts/ballad.html. Enjoy!
> 
> Best regards
> Khoo Hock Aun
> 
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:38 PM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Hello Khoo,
>> 
>> I do not understand why Bo says such things.  I think/hope/believe/feel the
>> MoQ a bridge between the Wisdom of the East and the intellect (science)
>> of the West.
>> 
>> 
>> Marsha
>> 
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>> 
>> On Jan 21, 2010, at 4:21 AM, Khoo Hock Aun wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Bo concludes after commenting on the half-baked SOM of the Orient and the
>>> woolly mess in its wake that:
>>> 
>>> The Western MOQ will be a better "Buddhism"!
>>> 
>>> Khoo:
>>> I would certainly like to see this if it were to be so: }
>>> 
>>> What are we talking about here:
>>> An intellectual pattern better than another intellectual pattern ?
>>> A Dynamic aspect better than its Static aspect?
>>> A better route than another route to Reality?
>>> 
>>> Is there a Western MOQ to begin with ?
>>> I do not remember Pirsig saying as such
>>> in either ZAMM or LILA ?
>>> 
>>> In what way will it be better ?
>>> The way Muslims say Islam is better ?
>>> The way Christians says theirs is better ?
>>> Science says its better, because they seek the Truth,
>>> Nothing less nothing more.
>>> 
>>> Is this what the Western MOQ is about ?
>>> Truth Seeking, Reality Seeking, Morally Speaking ?
>>> Evolution on to Better State,
>>> Or an Ultimate Reality, an Ultimate Good ?
>>> That is better than the other "Good"s?
>>> Always better, never lesser.
>>> 
>>> I wonder.
>>> 
>>> The Buddha after all did say" What I have taught you is like the leaves
>> in
>>> my hand
>>> and what I have not taught you is like the leaves in the jungle"
>>> 
>>> Perhaps Buddhism as a Metaphysics is indeed insufficient
>>> and a Western MOQ will make up the difference.
>>> 
>>> Best Regards
>>> Khoo Hock Aun
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