perspective detective

[David Morris]

Yes.  Life is absurd.  Ha haha ha!

But it is also tragic.  Ooooh...

But maybe it is neither.

It is NOT _both_, is it?

DM

--- Murthy Yenamandra <yenamand at cs.umn.edu> wrote:
> 
> David Morris complains:
> > That Epicetus quote sounds absurd...
> 
> So is life, so may be we'll reformulate it as:
> 
>     If you try to avoid absurdity in life,
>     you're bound to be confused and miserable, sooner or later.
> 
> Here is a relevant passage that appeared on the list a while ago:
> 
> "It is exactly the no-way-out situation in which the human being finds
> itself - that fundamental and unbridgeable inner cleavage of that being
> which is conscious of itself - that is said to be the way....[Zen Master
> Shin'ichi - tmc] Hisamatsu put this into a more general form: 'Doshitemo
> ikanakereba do suru ka?': 'Nothing will do. What do you do?' He called
> this the 'fundamental koan' - i.e., the koan that is the common
> denominator of the thousands of extant koans."


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