MDDM Ch. 72 Dixon and the slave driver

[Doug Millison]

Mr T:
> Thank you,  Doug. I've been waiting for you to admit
> that this is your
> position. 

My pleasure.  The text still exists in the books on my
shelf, Pynchon's included, the pages and the words on
the page are there, just as the Tree remains in front
of our house here,  the Bay and the Pacific blue in
the distance west. But once I pick up the text and
begin to read, it doesn't exist apart from me (the
same thing happens when I encounter the Tree --
"interbeing" I think the Buddhists might call it), I
enter into it and it enters into me, I bring to it all
the "texts" I have experienced, and it brings into me
all the "texts" that it has experienced.  As you might
agree, this is not a new way to think about a book.
 
> a pluralistic
> spectrum. 

Nothing but. 

>I can't
> stand to read Counter punch
 > or any of that other
> stuff you post 

You can choose not to read it. (You seem rather choosy
about what to include your pluralism.)


> these colleagues of mine fill my ears with that
> stuff every time we go
> out for a drink. 

That's one of the problems with bar drinking, no
control over the environment, gotta keep pounding
those beverages to drown it out.  

 

> The idea or the premise that the book, M&D or a the
> Aeneid, is an
> "object" has been challenged by recent lit-crit
> theory. 

Yes it has.

Both/and.  It's a dessert topping AND a floor wax!



"On the higher levels of spirituality, heaven and
earth are one and the same. For the truly righteous
man, a stone is as valuable as a sacred book. There is
no distinction between the fruit and the blessing one
makes over it. Since God is one, everything is one. "
--Isaac Bashevis Singer, Shadows on the Hudson 

http://here-and-now.org/wwwArticles/14precepts.html
http://resurgence.gn.apc.org/articles/interbeing.htm
Through mindfulness we experience Interbeing
which means everything is in everything else.
Therefore, one should know that Perfect Understanding
is a great mantra, is the highest mantra,
is the unequalled mantra, the destroyer of all
suffering,
the incorruptible truth. This is the mantra:

"Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha." 
The Buddha in the Heart Sutra

"The terrible war flower
has left her footprints-
countless petals of separation and death
in white and violet.
Very tenderly, the wound opens itself in the depths of
my heart.
Its color is the color of blood,
its nature the nature of separation. [...] 
http://www.allspirit.co.uk/nhathanh.html



http://www2.canisius.edu/~gallaghr/pcsfetz1.html


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