----- Original Message ----- From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 1:19 PM Subject: Re: Oodles and oodles of life
> Ian wrote:
>
> >If I remember right William Barret reported that when Heidegger had DT
Suzuki
> >read to him, exclaimed "that is what I have been trying to say all this
time"
> >or some such.
>
> If you are turned off by modernity and materialism and attracted to
> religious ways of looking at life and death, I'd think that you might
> as well pick a religion -- zen or whatever -- and stick to it. Why
> develop a new jargon of authenticity, when older ones are just as
> serviceable?
> --
> Yoshie
>
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Where did I claim I was turned off by modernity and materialism? I'm not sure zen is a religion.
Ian