[MD] The Quality of Free Will

[MarshaV]

Sorry everyone my atrocious typing & edition skills presented the Textbook 
quote incorrectly.  




Dave,

I've offered quotes on Buddhism from the MoQ Textbook.  Maybe you think 
Anthony is confused and nihilistic?  In the MoQ Textbook Anthony writes that 
the fundamental nature of the static is the Dynamic:  "Moreover, Nagarjuna 
(1966, p.251) shares Pirsig’s perception that the indeterminate (or Dynamic) 
is the fundamental nature of the conditioned (or static)."  -  It is the Prajnaparamita
Heart Sutra that states: "form is emptiness; emptiness is form" or as I consider 
it: sq is DQ, DQ is sq.  

Western Philosophy can be every bit as convoluted and nihilistic as Eastern 
Philosophy. I've read that if you read Kant as he wrote it in German, you'd find 
many contradictions. Consider 'Thus Spake Zarathustra'.   And what did 
Wittgenstein write:  "My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who 
understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed 
out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the 
ladder, after he has climbed up on it.)"

So please do not make any apology for Buddhism. Exploring the MoQ together 
with Buddhism is very valid.  


Marsha  

 
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