[MD] an authentic teacher?

[Heather Perella]

     [Dallas]
> I definitely agree with the death and emptiness
> thing.


    What "thing" of the death and emptiness are you
referring to?

     [Dallas]
> In fact, it instantly
> sheds light on all kinds of cultural consistencies.
> For example, in popular
> American culture, there is an overt fear of
> passivity, a fear of the
> feminine, a tendency and desire for war like,
> positive male cultural
> attributes. Even in intellectual circles where war
> is denounced, most
> atheists posit the belief in material, as if that
> weren't redundant.


     How does this fit in with death and emptiness or
are you referring to something else?

     [Dallas] 
> And of course, the Christian tradition led us to
> cover our embarrassments in
> the shape of laying dirt over corpses. Death is an
> embarrassment, because it
> is a reminder of the ultimate nature of our selves,
> the lack of any kind of
> absolute reality, i.e. emptiness.


     Where did you get that from?  I thought burying
corpses was a way to keep animals away from the
decaying mother and father, also, I thought to keep
disease from coming from the decaying body into the
village.  What about the smell too?


SA

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