What's this business of one hand clapping, anyway?

Ian Livingston igrlivingston at gmail.com
Wed Oct 6 13:19:37 CDT 2010


Isn't it a bit like a collection agency where he that was first will
later be last and all that jive?

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> If there is 'the return of the repressed' to get back one's psychic equilibrium,
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> can there be the return of the morally-lost, sometimes?
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> Can overwhelming guilt lead to karmic adjustment perforce?
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> Is karma also, perhaps, a metaphor for the cleansing by doing penance (in TRP,
> we are speaking)?
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Richard Fiero <rfiero at gmail.com>
> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Tue, October 5, 2010 9:32:00 PM
> Subject: What's this business of one hand clapping, anyway?
>
> My opinion is that karma is just the gross weight one picks up that keeps one on
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> the wheel of birth and rebirth. Perhaps see the Bardo Thodol (Tibetan Book of
> the Dead) or ask a Zen guy or girl and get laughed at.
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