[Buddha-l] Withdrawal of the senses

[Richard Hayes]

On Friday 17 November 2006 01:58, Joy Vriens wrote:

> A very interesting passage and the first time I see a vague resemblence
> with the movie "The Matrix". I guess every Buddhist is tired of hearing
> about parallels between The Matrix and Buddhism, particularly Cittamatra,
> but I can't help thinking of the choice between the red pill and the blue
> pill here.

I tried to watch The Matrix but was so put off by the violence that I never 
got to the pills. Could you explain, for those of us who walked out of Bambi 
because we couldn't stand to watch the forest fire scene, what the issue in 
the Matrix is?


-- 
Richard P. Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico
http://www.unm.edu/~rhayes