Tantra in Pynchon's Against the Day

[Mark Kohut]

Informative, very, and somehow P's low but inclusive road is " right" within his vision, IMHO. 

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> On May 2, 2017, at 10:08 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Tantra is the low road to Zen's high road.  Both reach the goal, but by very different means. Tantra is inclusive of all experience as vehicles of real value . Zen is exclusive of all experience's real value, all being illusion and distraction. Tantra is "wet."  Zen is "dry."  Tantra is body. Zen is mind.  Historically, Zen was exclusively for men and upper castes. Tantra was open to all, including women and lower castes. Both are valid ways to awakening.
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> My path is Tantra,
> David Morris 
> 
>> On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 8:39 PM Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
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>> "The noted Quaternionist Dr. V. Ganesh Rao of Calcutta University was seeking a gateway to the Ulterior, as he liked to phrase it, having come to recognize the wisdom of simply finding silence and allowing Mathematics and History to proceed as they would." (p. 130)
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>> https://oak.ucc.nau.edu/jgr6/pynchon_against.htm
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>> John Rothfork: Tantra in Pynchon's Against the Day
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>> > ... What Pynchon calls grace seems to be related to what Hindus call rasa that invites us to taste or savor experience rather than substituting talk, ideas, and explanations for the experience. (...) The answer to the complexities offered by the novel, if we can call it an answer, seems to be rasa, beauty, or grace ... <
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>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasa_(aesthetics)
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