Re: your comments

Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@www.aeiveos.com)
Thu, 16 Sep 1999 18:37:25 -0700 (PDT)

On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Kathryn Aegis wrote:

> I meant to mention this to you--do you realize that you are expressing
> Taoist sentiments quite regularly? One example below:
>

Interesting. Around 20 years ago I was fairly involved with Est for a few years. I took pretty much all the courses they had to offer and got to look very closely at their core system. They extracted a lot of things from different philosophies and disciplines but the key things that stuck with me were some of their self-observation methods and pseudo-Zen philosophies. Subsequently I studied Zen for a couple of years in a very haphazard way. All of that got buried under my biology education.

Would you say that Zen is derived from Taoism? If so, then that would explain your perceptions.

Cheers,
Robert