politics and religion: christianity versus the pantheistic

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> > 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.

No.

> 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. 

Only after the Judeo-Christian invasion.

> 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?) 

Here you are correct.

> These books are not available in Sanskrit: 

No, but in one of its descendents.

>  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." 

Thanks for the reading list. So far, these don't appear to be the 
type of documents I was suggesting.

> 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. 

Measurement of cycles: the far side looks like a darkened or off 
state to the near perspective.

> 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? 

Karma is the transactional process of life. Only "Western" religions 
moralize it.

>   Have you been an un-American?

www.unamerican.com

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

Barbie is all American. Based on a French pornography actress, 
designed by a Hungarian Jewish woman, and released by a company owned 
by mainly Irish and Englishmen.

God Bless The Polyglot Norming

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