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In a message dated 9/12/00 2:33:39 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
chrislees@easynet.co.uk writes:
<< Subj: Re: solipsistic view on memetics
Date: 9/12/00 2:33:39 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: chrislees@easynet.co.uk (Chris Lees)
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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 !" >>
Hi Chris -
According to the M-W Dictionary, 'mu' is the twelfth letter of the
Greek alphabet. Is there another meaning that would fit what the
zen masters meant by "Mu !" ?
Len Jayson
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