“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris
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I was just alluding to this in a post i put up called, "See no evil do no evil"
questioning how to read the three pure precepts. No one really took the bait.
(Romantic Dogen guy from the Portland, OR. seminar.)
I feel quite alone in my circle in thinking the Buddha was speaking to the Nobility in his teaching, the Beautiful Soul in particular. That's what sparked me to look at Dogen differently.
Is evil in the "eye" of the beholder or the "I" of the beholder?
I, for one, am perplexed at why more people do not comment about this stuff!!!!
There are so many smart people out there.
I don't know if I'm smart but I only discovered prof. Morton's work the other day.
I like it, I can understand it, which is always a plus.
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