Date sent: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 18:37:25 -0700 (PDT) From: "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@www.aeiveos.com> To: Kathryn Aegis <k_aegis@mindspring.com> Copies to: extropians@extropy.com Subject: Re: your comments Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
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> On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Kathryn Aegis wrote:
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> > I meant to mention this to you--do you realize that you are expressing
> > Taoist sentiments quite regularly? One example below:
> >
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> 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
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>
Japanese Zen is derived from Chinese Ch'an, one of many
branches of Buddhism (Theravadan, Mahayanan, Vajrayanan,
etc.),,but they all have their historical roots in the confrontation
between Hinduism and Taoism.