[Buddha-l] A Drowsy little spot this. eh?

[Piya Tan]

Keep seeking Coyote and you will find, just keep away from the Roadrunner;

Honk! x3

Piya Tan


On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Richard Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu> wrote:

> Three days before cinco de mayo, James M. Peavler wrote:
>
> > Buddhist academics apparently go dormant in the Spring. Well, who can
> > blame 'em.
>
> I can't speak for others, but I am pretty well always dormant.
>
> This semester is the first in something like twenty-seven years in which
> I have not taught anything connected with Buddhism. Well, I did meet
> with some graduate students and read some Dharmakīrti with them in
> Sanskrit, which I found mightily annoying. I found the graduate students
> perfectly delightful, but my disdain for Dharmakīrti continues to grow
> apace. Why someone would take a perfectly good religion and ruin it by
> trying to make it reasonable beats me.
>
> I'm in love again. It happens to me every time I read Charles S. Peirce
> and William James. I can't figure out why anyone would ever read
> anything not written by these two fine fellows (although I allow that
> liberal helpings of Walt Whitman and Mark Twain never hurt anyone). It
> certainly baffles me why anyone would try to interpret Buddhism as
> anything but a feeble attempt to articulate Pragmatism avant le mot.
>
> One of these days I may write a message to buddha-l and maybe try to
> piss off a few monks by making the point that George Fox is the only
> person since Ānanda who had a clue what Gautama was trying without much
> success to say. But not now. I've nearly forgotten everything I once
> knew about Buddhism and must start over again from scratch.
>
> Sufficient unto the day is the bewilderment thereof.
>
> Yours in desecration and dessication,
> Coyote
>
>
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