Serendipitous find. Some Pynchon words, tropes....

[David Morris]

Yes.  Western Bhuddism's founders should be thanked for their bringing this
practice to our world.
Suzuki's "beginners mind" teaching is an Internet favorite.
"Suffer the Children," as JC said.

It is about the great value of a new passion, a quest for truth, reality.

And an implicitl warning against hardness, sclerosis.  An old mind.

David Morris

On Thursday, July 18, 2013, Markekohut wrote:

> In an anthology, there was a paragraph from Alan Watts in which he
> characterized the year he met and got to know the great Zen Buddhist, D.T.
> Suzuki, as his " year of grace"....describing Suzuki's Seemingly simple
> character, his spontaneously intelligent presence, Watts said,
> " He uses gravity as a sailor uses the wind."
>
> Nice.
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> Sent from my iPad
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