[MD] Another parallel

[plattholden at gmail.com]

On 14 Jul 2009 at 13:00, John Carl wrote:

> >
> > "The central reality of the MOQ not an object or a subject of anything
> > else. It is understood by direct experience only and not by reasoning of
> > any kind." (LC,132)
> >
> 
> Wow.  Great dialogue.  Lots to think about.  But now I'm thinking I may
> disagree with the Great Man Himself.
> 
> "ANY reasoning of ANY kind"???  How do you know unless you've tried them
> all?  The act of trying to fit Quality into SOM
>  is a kind of reasoning.  The  Zen Koan is a kind of reasoning as one
> wrestles with the S/O split until one is too tired to fight anymore.  There
> are lots of kinds of reasonings beyond SOMish ways.    You'd have to have
> some sort of mind in order to comprehend the central reality of the MoQ, and
> a mind without reasoning is like a computer without  software.  A computer
> without software  is known as a doorstop.  A mind without reason is even
> less.
> 
> Y'all have to explain that one to me.
> 
> John the befuddled.


Hey John, 

This is the best "explanation" I've found:

"Here it is -- right now. Start thinking about it and you miss it."

             -- Huang Po

Zen koans are good, too. They're so "anti-intellectual." 

Platt