Thanks Chris,
The biologist you refer to sounds interesting. I'm sorry I don't know
'dogon'.
Unless you mean Dogen, a Zen teacher who said,
"When you are drunk, there is a close friend who will give the pearl to you,
and you, without fail, must impart the pearl to a close friend. When the
pearl is attached to someone, he is, without exception, drunk. It being
thus, it is the one bright pearl-all the universe."
I do sort of rebel against academia, although I am intellectual, more then
I'd like to be I think.
thinking, thinking thinking.
Its a conflict in me.
I often feel afraid that I will get 'caught out' because I haven't read this
or that probably because my education is not formal and has lots of holes in
it.
I am passionate about books and yet very fussy in my reading. It has to be a
revelation to me otherwise I'd rather the direct experience of writing.
I feel comfortable about yoga because it is the science of experience.
Out of the head and into the body.
And yes so is orgasm, the ultimate extinction of the 'I' to hark back to an
earlier conversation.
I often think of writers I know as brilliant minds
who ignore the body, like a Dali painting, I visualize a giant mind walking
around on sticks.
I 'think' something great happens when thinking stops. Maybe its love.
Claire
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Jones" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: in response to Randolph,
> Please don't go away, Claire. I enjoy reading what you have to say.
> Eastern philosophy is very interesting to me, although I have not
> read much. (I did read a little some years ago but it had words like
> ontology and epistemology in the book and at that time I didn't ever
> want to hear those words again... I had just finished my degree, if you
> follow my drift.) Recently I read the biologist, Humberto Maturanna,
> which uses Eastern phil as a living in the doing of the now, and I would
> like to read about dogon, is it?
>
> best wishes
>
> Chris Jones.
>
> (PS... sorry about any possible typos... this email client, Mozilla,
> don't have a spell checker and I am not rich enough to get a new pair of
> multifocals, right now. That will have to wait for a new job.)
>
> Claire Gaskin wrote:
>
> >No-one is talking to me much on this list but I will introduce myself
> >anyway.
> >I sometimes think I'll drop of this list but it is like a soap-opera at
> >times and a bit addictive.
> >I have an addictive personality.
> >
> >
>
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