[Buddha-l] 'Nature' and eating meat

Chan Fu chanfu at gmail.com
Mon Oct 24 17:32:22 MDT 2005


on 10/24/05, horowitz at chass.utoronto.ca <horowitz at chass.utoronto.ca> wrote:
> >  Sorry if this response was inappropriate.  I thought you might ask what
> misnagged means.  In the Jewish tradition it means, roughly, one who is
> so devoted to rational thinking that he has little patience with myth
> (like the Tree, or the Lotus Sutra)little patience with paradox
> (Nagarjuna,Zen,Derrida, Magliola)... And you are one of the sharpest
> wits I have ever encountered. Please accept my apology.I promise no
> more obfuscatory ad hominems.

In the buddhist tradition, it means, roughly,
that papanca is a lot of fun if you don't take
it seriously. Even more so if your eyebrows
knit up and you wonder, "Just what are they
knitting, those eyebrows?"

As wits go, Richard is my better half.



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