pynchon agnostic? II

[S.R. Prozak]

> >>> 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.

It's a standard statement of philosophical idealism.

http://www.saint-andre.com/ismbook/I.html#Idealism

> He fair seemed to bristle when the arrogant fundamentalism (i.e. the "we're
> right, you're wrong" tack) of the instructor's spiel was noted, however.

Consider in contrast the Judeo-Christian religions:

http://www.saint-andre.com/ismbook/A.html#absolutism

I'd prefer the kosmisch/Eastern variant. Even if it is, like all great thinkers, Anti-Judean (what is called "anti-Semitic" around here to deflect criticism from Israel and Christian leftist fundamentalism).




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