NP: Some history of the Learned Dogs. Serendipity.

[Mark Kohut]

I think Pynchon is giving us in The LED a dog pretty definitely without a
Buddha nature.
Part of the point (but maybe you meant that too)?

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 11:28 AM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> A monk asked Master Chao-chou, "Has a dog the Buddha Nature or not?"
> Chao-chou said, "Mu!"
>
> > On Jan 10, 2018, at 5:26 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > From a remark in an essay on The Odyssey, about the old dog therein,
> > the writer says that dogs are the philosophical animal as Plato wrote
> > about them in The Republic, citing the pages, and I looked them up
> >
> > and Plato calls them 'wisdom-loving" in the dialogue with Glaucon
> > they are seen as always friendly--they don't bark as the dog doesn't in
> The Odyssey--
> >  to those they already know yet first to sound hostile--bark--at
> strangers, therefore
> >
> > very fitting, in that respect, to be Guardians of The Republic.
>
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