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t>, Ahmad Risk <[log in to unmask]> writes
>I'll dig out the article I posted here few years back that talked about
>the differences between Socrates and Zen.
Thanks
>Socrates 'mechanisms' have dominated our culture (western) for many
>centuries. They are, of course, mainly 'either/or' based. Zen, on the
>other hand, is pretty much neural but with built-in self-organisation?
Western thinking, which ignores that of half the world, going back
millenia, must be missing something. I feel that Descartes and his
mates, for all their worth, led us down the wrong path to some degree
and that the ramifications of dualism are only slowly being questioned.
>I love looking at those wonderful Japanese gardens. Love more to watch
>the guys 'doing' the gardens over 1000s of years.
So how old are you?
Regards
George
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