Today's discussion question

[Mark Kohut]

This answer re one's reading of Pynchon is in line with why I posted the question originally. Esp in Against the Day, he 
satirizes Eastern religious concepts as much as Western it seems to me...and then there are the mysterious 'bad shit' stuff 
that comes from the east in Inherent Vice, say....yet he does seem to use the concept of karma (karmic adjustment) positively...
 
so, I am often visited with the thought that he might be an irreligious Buddhist---in the sense that even some Buddhists say----lately i
read another piece in Tricycle Mag---is that Buddhism, properly understood, is an attitude to life that has no real religious (and even
strains the notion of 'spirituality') meanings...
 
Just sayin'.
 

From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 7:35 PM
Subject: Re: Today's discussion question



A) personal acquaintance with 2 westerners who adopted buddhism has not revealed it to be a complete panacea of character improvement imho
B) pynchon doesn't seem extremely overawed by the mystic East in any of its aspects.  Would say that christianity plays a much bigger role, also western philosophical tradition and history of technology, in all his work.
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