pynchon agnostic? II

[Cyrus]

jbor wrote:

>on 11/3/03 6:21 AM, Keith McMullen at keithsz at concentric.net wrote:
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>>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.
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>Sounds like religious fundamentalism to me.
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I think the key sentence was the last one, which you omitted: "Refunds 
were not offered." Unless I'm wrong, of course, and Keith really 
believed the guy... In any case, I would propose a question: If you hold 
a cup and we all agree there is no cup, will the cup become invisible? 
will it pass out of existence? will we all go blind?
Well, I don't know about cups, but there's one thing I know for sure: 
"there is no spoon".

Cyrus