grammatical buddhism
01.19.07 • comment • trackback
I have a lot of respect for Buddhism. It’s the Unreligion. Like a quine (that’s your word of the day!), Buddhism folds back on itself and becomes an example of its own doctrine. Be Buddhist or do not be Buddhist, but regardless, Buddhism just is, with or without your patronage. I can respect that.
You do, however, hear a lot of weird stuff getting passed off as sage wisdom. “Ambient strangeness,” if you will. The sound of one hand clapping and all that. In fact, it’s pretty easy to sound like a Buddhist monk just be stringing a few contradictory prefixes together. Hypothetical examples:
“Embrace the falsity, and know the truth of the non-reality.”
“In the un-thing, there is nothing that is not something.”
“At the height of depth, there is paradox.”
“Just do it.”