[Buddha-l] Zen War Guilt/Zen and the Sword

[curt]

OK, let me put it another way: "a quick google search
easily supports my contention that Brian Victoria's
books have been met with a great weeping and gnashing
of teeth on the part of western adherents of Japanese Zen."

- Curt

Richard Hayes wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 17:04 -0400, curt wrote:
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>>If one does a google search on the words
>>"shock yasutani brian victoria" (leave off the quotes) one gets
>>quite a few direct hits:
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>I just got 8,970 direct hits by doing a Google search for "Condoleeza
>Rice peanut butter." But that's nothing compared to the 292,000 direct
>hits I got for searching for "Mercury penis."
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>Just a wild guess, but I'm thinking the number of hits one gets by doing
>a Google search does not signify much. But then I also thought Edward
>Said's self-indulgent pseudo-intellectual tantrums did not signify much
>either. De gustibus und so weiter.
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