Buddhism and IV

[rich]

beats me, I ain't pico iyer

On 8/19/09, Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:
> But what about the other half of the picture?
>
> The animals, pretas and the hell-section?
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> http://www.paranormal.de/yoga/gif/Tibet2.jpg
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> 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.
>