Karma my ass! Quail, Davemarc, Kurt, and Doug

[Terrance]

       An  emerging  theme  of Nishida  Kitaro's  later
        works was expressed  in the complex  phrase  "zettai
        mujunteki  jikodoitsu,  "  variously  translated  by
        Schinzinger      as     "absolute      contradictory
        self-identity,  "  "the  self-identity  of  absolute
        contradictories," or more  simply  as  "oneness"  or
        "unity" of opposites.  The theory of contrariety  or
        opposition   that  Nishida  (1870-1945)  worked  out
        between 1927 and 1945 can be taken as a stimulus for
        East/West comparative thought. This is so because of
        the special significance  of Nishida's  thought, but
        also more generally because contrariety  is itself a
        prime subject for comparative philosophy.

            The eminent philosophical anthropologist  Mircea
        Eliade once said that "the union of opposites"  is a
        basic category  of archaic ontology  and comparative
        world religions.  Eliade's claim is contentious only
        in that the reference  to "union" subtly provides  a
        characterization  and suggestion of a particular way
        of conceptualizing  felt oppositions and polarities.
        The initial fact is that of felt opposition  itself;
        the  ensuing  demand  or  problematic  is that  of a
        conceptual understanding of contrariety. 

http://pears2.lib.ohio-state.edu/FULLTEXT/JR-PHIL/axtell1.htm

http://www.nanzan-u.ac.jp/SHUBUNKEN/publications/nsrc/Religion%20and%20Nothingness.htm

Like, that Karmic hammer and wheel in GR, it's like gnostic and like, in
VL, ah, is like that a real Karma, I mean a pure lands Karma or a Zen
master's Karma, a Buddhist-skeptic's  Karma, a Hindu pre/post
Mahayana...Abhidharma Karma, or a Sears Karma? 




Do you remember, your President Nixon?
Do you remember, the bills you have to pay
Or even yesterday?

Have you been an un-American?

All night 

 You want the un-American
 un-American, un-American, you want the un-American
 All right
 You want the un-American


Well, it ain't that Barbie doll...

 Been un-seasonably mild here in  Northeast America even as the days
continue
to shrink. Sunday I rode 50 miles in the sun--Instant Karma.