MISC. NP but the plist-divided Murakami

[Ian Livingston]

The ARE different.....


On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
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> They different kinds of magic.
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> 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...
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>> 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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