[MD] Re Proposed solution to SOL/Intellectual level

[MarshaV]

If its a pissing contest you think...   




On Jan 24, 2010, at 9:27 AM, Khoo Hock Aun wrote:

> Hi Marsha,
> 
> There is a typo there which Mark did not intend. It should actually read:
> 
> "We are what we think
> All that we are arises with our thoughts...
> With our thoughts we make
> 
> However,
> Its not really important what I think.
> I think its more important what the rest thinks.
> I have to live in a world they all make up for me : )
> 
> Seriously,
> If we all get caught in a pissing competition
> about who gets the best word in
> then all we get is a lot of urine in the air !
> 
> Afraid so and best regards
> Khoo Hock Aun
> 
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> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:19 PM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 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
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 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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