M & D Sunday's Western "sermon" on Tibetan Buddhism in Pynchon

[Mark Kohut]

Forgot maybe the most important thematic
circumstantial evidence.....Cyprian?

Who seems to achieve some kind of egoless
radiation of the good??....his while being/body
registers a kind of orgasm.........

On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 7:03 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tibetan Buddhism teaches that we are all potential Buddhas, because we
> are essentially pure and luminous at the most basic level of
> existence. That purity, called Buddha-nature, is typically clouded
> over by a dense layer of ignorance and negativity, which dominates us
> and leads to suffering.
>
> Buddhahood is defined as a state free of the obstructions to
> liberation as well as those to omniscience.[8] When one is freed from
> all mental obscurations,[9] one is said to attain a state of
> continuous bliss mixed with a simultaneous cognition of emptiness,[10]
> the true nature of reality.[11] In this state, all limitations on
> one's ability to help other living beings are removed.[12]
>
> I offer "Karmic Adjustment", just a joke but is it 'just"
>
> The Bodhisatva-like action of the Chums BEFORE they enter the world of
> family and history between the wars....
>
> That seal on ATD.
>
> The Eastern thought mentions in M &D also reminding me of
> back-to-the-land American HD Thoreau's words on Eastern thought and
> traditions in THAT landlocked book....
>
> Despite a 'religious' sensibility, all seem to feel, he eviscerates
> just about all Western religious traditions and beliefs all over his
> oeuvre...i would argue...
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