[MD] The Intellectual Gauntlet

[David M]

Marsha

More disappointed.

DM

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> David,
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> You must be right.
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> Marsha
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David M" <davidint at blueyonder.co.uk>
> To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 1:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [MD] The Intellectual Gauntlet
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>
>> Hi Marsha
>>
>> Yes, in the context of us as MOQ critics of western culture who
>> often ask what we can learn from the east, I was asking
>> what the east can learn from the west for a change? Is that
>> a bad thing? You might think the answer is no, maybe you should
>> try answering the question rather than just chucking abuse and odd
>> suspicions at the questioner, it's a shame don't you think? Of course,
>> the second comment you quote is in the context of the problematic
>> comprehension of the west known as MOQ, I kind of take that as a
>> given round here, but happy to confirm that this criticism works, at the
>> least, both ways. My point is to find where east and west might meet,
>> but that that may require both to move.
>>
>> DM
>>
>>>
>>>> Hi Marsha
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I think the word 'may' in my proposition may have passed you by.
>>>>
>>>> DM
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi David,
>>>
>>> And I'm sure the next sentence, "Here is perhaps where the west can ask 
>>> if the east needs to think again in more comprehensive way." was just as 
>>> innocent.
>>>
>>> Marsha
>>>
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