Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id KAA10574 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:34:17 +0100 Message-Id: <f04310101b5e3a75fee81@[194.154.110.185]> In-Reply-To: <200009120010.UAA25232@mail6.lig.bellsouth.net> References: <200009120010.UAA25232@mail6.lig.bellsouth.net> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:31:16 +0100 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk From: Chris Lees <chrislees@easynet.co.uk> Subject: Re: solipsistic view on memetics Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-RBL-Warning: (orbs.dorkslayers.com) 195.40.1.40 is listed by dorkslayers.com Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Hi Joe,
>People get caught up in the extremes of a position, rather than
>taking the more balanced view of the middle way between. The
>opposite extreme from solipsism (that mind is all) is the position
>that some Buddhists hold, i.e. the doctrine of no-mind - the
>doctrine that mind is nothing and that selves do not exist, and that
>the opinion that one's self does exist is a delusion (which prompts
>the question of, if selves didn't exist, what could possibly be there
>to be deluded).
And for an eternity, the zen masters have been supplying the answer
(to deaf ears mostly) which is, if I am not mistaken, very roughly and
approximately, " Mu !"
C.L.
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