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Consciousness is much more than that, just pay attention.  Hagen is stuck in a cage of his own making.

Mark

On Nov 9, 2011, at 11:07 PM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:

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> "While I am thinking about it there is a very good book on Buddhism recently out called 'Buddhism, Plain and Simple', by Steve Hagen and published by Tuttle Publishing. I recommend you get it because it shows the similarities, between the MOQ and Zen Buddhism more clearly than any other I have seen."
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> Pirsig to McWatt, May 6th 1998.
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>  "Consciousness is nothing more than the splitting of Reality into this and that.  Consciousness is making distinctions and drawing lines.  That is set off "over there," and you're set off "over here."  Consciousness divides what is otherwise the direct experience of a seamless Whole into the world of multiplicity, the world of space and time.  (Or, rather, it appears to divide up the Whole.  The Whole of course remains whole.)"
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>  (Hagen, Steve, 'Buddhism, Plain and Simple' , p.40)
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> Not this, not that...  
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