Buddhism and IV

Otto ottosell at googlemail.com
Wed Aug 19 10:01:35 CDT 2009


But what about the other half of the picture?

The animals, pretas and the hell-section?

http://www.paranormal.de/yoga/gif/Tibet2.jpg

Otto

2009/8/18 rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>:
> I nicked this from the Cormac McCarthy discussion group and I found it
> very interesting. if this has been posted apologies. it was written by
> martinzook
>
> Rich
>
> One of the great things I'm enjoying about IV is the variety of realms
> in it. I haven't quite organized them in my Pooh brain yet, but, at
> the least, there are the dopers/surfers; the authorities divided into
> two realms that might be thought of as capitalist and enforcement; and
> the ancients, including the gurus with their links to previous
> incarnations.
>
> This roughly parallels the three higher realms in the buddhist
> cosmology: the gods, demigods, and human.



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