MISC. NP but the plist-divided Murakami

[Ian Livingston]

Remember that Zen is not South American Catholicism. South American
Catholicism is a deeply woven blend of pre-rational mythologies that
gives form to a complexity of archetypal forces in the mind. Zen looks
at archetypal forces, becomes aware of itself looking at them,
contemplates the looking, then the looker, and, eventually, arrives at
the negation of both, which negation is also identical with the
affirmation of both as arising in the same simple instant of a vast,
complex impetus merely labeled as karma. The contemporary take is the
one the beats liked so much: mu.

They different kinds of magic.

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:54 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's "magical" aspect come acreoss to me as leading nowhere, hinting
> at a depth that is never delivered.  Gabriel García Márquez does that
> magical thing, and with him it has resonance.  Maybe it's a Japanese
> cultural thing that I just don't follow...
>
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I like his stuff, particularly "Kafka on the Shore". There's an innocent magical quality to it that I find entertaining.
>



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