[MD] The Intellectual Gauntlet

[MarshaV]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Glendinning" <ian.glendinning at gmail.com>
To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 8:19 AM
Subject: Re: [MD] The Intellectual Gauntlet


>
> (BTW - David M's point about internal / external views is relevant to
> this too - and of course one of the reasons the individual / social
> confusion keeps arising when we are talking - SOMistically - about
> intellectual / social distinctions.)
>
> Ian
>


Greetings Ian,

Maybe you are pointing to my rather cryptic remark about David's 
Eastern/inner and Western/outer post (Sorry David!).  Such a comment would 
only make sense if one had a clear understanding of both Eastern and Western 
points-of-view.  A statement like "the eastern mystic may be happy to sit 
meditating whilst the world
goes to hell." shows a depth of ignorance of an important half of the MOQ's 
East/West synthesis.

Nagarjuna obliterates subject/object dualism in a manner that shouldn't be 
missed.  This leaves the air clean and fresh for a new world-view 
experience.  Many of the problems this list is having "defining things" 
would melt away.  The subject/object pov stays intact but can be seen as a 
workable method in a conventional world not reality itself.

Marsha