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

[alice wellintown]

This story and the commentary on Suzuki  calls to mind Yeat's famous
"The Dialogue of Self and Soul."

Here is the kute Korespondence stanza:

My Soul. Such fullness in that quarter overflows
And falls into the basin of the mind
That man is stricken deaf and dumb and blind,
For intellect no longer knows
I, Is from the I, Ought, or I knower from the I Known —
That is to say, ascends to Heaven;
Only the dead can be forgiven;
But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.


Here is an essay on Yeats and Science:

Do not all charms fly
At the mere touch of cold philosophy? [i.e., natural philosophy, or science]
There was an awful rainbow once in heaven:
We know her woof, her texture; she is given
In the dull catalogue of common things.
Philosophy will clip an Angel’s wings,
Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,
Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine—
Unweave a rainbow …

http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3710798/albright_science.pdf?sequence=1

On 7/19/13, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 1st sentence of Zen Mind: "In the beginner's mind there are many
> possibilities, but in the expert's there are few."
>
> 1st story in Zen Flesh, Zen Bones:
> A Cup of Tea
> Nan-in, a Japanese Master during the Meiji era, received a university
> professor who came to require about Zen.
> Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor's cup full and then kept on
> pouring.
> The professor watched the overflow until he no longer could restrain
> himself. "It is overfull. No more will go in!"
> "Like this cup," Nan-in said, "you are full of your own opinions and
> speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup."
>
>
>
>
> 2013/7/19 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>
>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>
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