It's not well known that the towering New Critic Northrop Frye studied Buddhist texts, quite seriously. Before him Empson was fascinated by Buddha faces and was writing a book manuscript about them (it may have shown up, I hear, but I'm not totally sure). Frye's journals show ample evidence of a thoughtful and quite deep encounter with Buddhism. He wonders for instance whether Protestantism and Zen share some similar undercurrents. (Remember he's a quasi-Jungian who thinks in terms of collective myths.)
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What an excellently placed caveat.
I find these posts on Buddhism very interesting.
hyptheses 1: in principle OOO makes "non-attachment" (as a practice) easier.
I've already made enourmous in-roads on this subject. In just two months of absorbing OOO, I can see and feel how non-attachment will be newly conceived.
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