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Buddhism, Pure and Simple
duus | Feb 6 2006
Merlin posted about this book here: for me, it invokes a very similar feeling as properly done GTD. GTD is about the present, the now, the next action; the next physical action. it's the same thing. embracing the now. living life as a series of present moments. 12 Comments
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 so not so out there, i guess.Submitted by duus on February 7, 2006 - 10:23am.
Merlin wrote:
Nice. Approval from The Mann. I'm touched. I don't think i "get" it myself (nor do i want to imply that). My experience with buddhism (or, as i remember you calling it, "faux western buddhism"), is limited to this book and the "basic buddhism" zencast (which i listened to this morning on the elliptical machine at the Y). I've read some Nietzsche, though, and I have one friend in particular who calls him "the Buddha of Europe." I think he's widely misread, really. Nihilism and emptyness--very similar, actually. Like, what do we *know*? That is, really *know*? Well, all we know is the now. Everything else is guesswork. It's the same kind of radical confrontration with reality. Those are very similar things, it seems to me. Just a thought. oh, i found a quote by N. that makes this case pretty well, actually: I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who makes things beautiful. Amor fati (love of fate): let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer. The cog.beh. th'py looks very compelling. I've put in my @RR folder on my bookmarks bar. And we all know what that means. » POSTED IN:
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