[MD] Platt and Arlo

[ian glendinning]

Paul, Marsha, et al,

Don't know about the rest of the article, but I thought this was
stunningly true ...
[Quote]
In reality we are not ultimately separate from the rest of the Sea of
Conditions, from all the vast immensity of life itself. But we don't see it
like that. 'Human kind cannot bear very much reality'. In order to get by
from day to day, to get on with the apparently urgent business of survival,
we narrow the scope of our vision to more manageable proportions.
[Unquote]

The Mulamadhyamakakarika looks like another addition to my Christmas
reading list. Sigh. So much to learn. Been reading Sun Tsu's "Art of
War" (rather belatedly, as a scholar of management strategy) and
stunned at the level of Taoist philsophy it embodies. Also been
reading Mary Parket Follett's 1920's "Prophet of Management" and
getting that we've been here before feeling too. This stuff is all
around us and it's been there a long time - several millennia.

When will the "current" world wake up to the reality staring it in the face.
"The human kind cannot bear much reality" - says it all.

Ian

On 12/6/05, MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> I'm reading The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna's
> Mulamadhyamakakarika translated and commentary by Jay L.
> Garfield.   It had a very high rating at Amazon.  I'm not having any
> trouble understanding the arguments, but don't ask me to paraphrase.
>
> Marsha
>
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