politics and religion: christianity versus the pantheistic

[Terrance]

s~Z wrote:
> 
> >>>Very old documents unpoliticized and untouched by "Westerners"<<<
> 
> So by unadulterated buddhism you mean buddhism not interpreted by westerners
> (Sears Buddhism) and are not referring to some distinct pure form of
> buddhism itself as opposed to sectarian buddhism adulterated in some fashion
> by buddhists?


Another yellow and white view, it seems, the good east and the bad west.
Those nasty westerners (Guilty! Who me? Eye, why eye, meeee, I'm,
western, right, but, guilty...) just fuck everything up. Everything they
touch turns into shit, money, and the word. Ha! Ha! Yeah, and that's why
we need one of the karmic machines to take the death palm western grip
off the mandate of heaven (ooooops, see that now, there I go slipping
into western translated logocentricity. or is it my logophobia again?) 

These books are not available in Sanskrit: 

 Richard Robinson, The Buddhist Religion: A historical
  Introduction 

  William R. LaFleur, The Karma of Words: Buddhism and the
  Literary Arts in Medieval Japan (U of California Press
  1983). 

Nishida Kitaro (put a - over  the o in his name). He is a Modern
Japanese Philosopher. He  studied Kierrkegaard and others--"paradoxical
logic" and "Nothingness." 

Say, 

ierkegaard had a host of personas. Don't think he ever had
  a bag lady under a bridge but if we assume that the author
  is a religious author, all the works can be explained, and
  the so called aesthetic works than appear as indirect
  communications in which the author attempts to reach his
  readers by beginning from where they are. The aesthetic
  works are written over pseudonyms because, unlike the
  religious works, they do not represent the position of
  Kierkegaard himself. 

  "I represented a worldly irony, joie de vivre, the subtlest
  form of pleasure-seeking--without a trace of "seriousness
  and positivity;" on the other hand, I was prodigiously witty
  and interesting." 

  --The Point Of View of My Work As An Author, Kierkegaard  

  How do you do, my name is Sue, Dunham

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. 

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.