Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that Date: 8 Dec 2024 22:31:12 GMT Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <495550f7-796e-4414-67ae-26d3f8ba16f1@example.net> <33442f75-5afe-ce6b-d5b2-19efc78a72d3@example.net> <2c1fb128-258b-7848-e896-3246674d460f@example.net> <2d814efc-b5f8-a1f9-d273-77016cb3cbae@example.net> <9cGcnY0c8c3LA8_6nZ2dnZfqnPudnZ2d@earthlink.com> <6465d1f8-6fab-e3bd-0345-86011937364d@example.net> <77a225ca-c45c-dd19-fc45-e2de5f7963be@example.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net JljSbULAcegKp3TTfJtbCQArmiBxcrohrk0rSLMP58U/bT5EtB Cancel-Lock: sha1:mY2tY9ZLjhojpVWTcx+hWPpIqDo= sha256:T84kbQu3oy7rnJgbNYMPZ6PLIRpQl+JzAsnTaH/i4Wg= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:61985 On Sun, 8 Dec 2024 12:10:55 +0100, D wrote: > I'm no expert, but I'd say the sitting version sounds more "original". > As for Watts, I'm always skeptical of those kind of new ages guys, but > very often people seem to be huge fans. The story has several variations but the general theme is Gautama spent 6 years trying the various New Age techniques with no success until he decided to plant himself under the Bodhi tree until he figured it out. Then came the systemizers and the immense body of Abhidharma literature, followed by the different schools arguing over interpretation. I always had problems with some of those texts. Those people would have loved LibreOffice since everything is enumerated lists. I can't reliably remember the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, and the Twelve Links of Dependent Origination let alone the subgroupings like the Five Skahndas. That's probably why I like Nietzsche; sprawling, self-contradictory, spur of the moment aphorisms with no attempt to build a system. That's better than Schopenhauer's 'On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason' which he claims is the key to understanding The World as Will.