pynchon agnostic? II

[jbor]

on 11/3/03 6:21 AM, Keith McMullen at keithsz at concentric.net wrote:

> My interest was
> catalyzed by a seminar I attended on Buddhism and psychotherapy. The
> instructor kept holding up his Styrofoam cup and saying, "There is no
> difference between this cup and a thought. The only reason you see a cup is
> because we have all agreed that there is a cup." He further suggested that
> almost all of what is presented in the West as Eastern thought is complete
> hogwash, because the Eastern perspective is so fundamentally different than
> how the West conceptualizes the nature of reality, that it is nearly
> impossible for us to grasp it and vice versa. he concluded that any union of
> Buddhism and Western psychology was impossible.

Sounds like religious fundamentalism to me.

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