When You Live In The Shadow Of

When Somebody Goes Outside The Cultural Norms, The Culture Has To Protect Itself.

What Is Essential To Understand At This Point Is That Until Now There Was No Such Thing As Mind And Matter, Subject And Object, Form And Substance. Those Divisions Are Just Dialectical Inventions That Came Later...they Are Just Ghosts, Immortal Gods Of The Modern Mythos Which Appear To Us To Be Real Because We Are Within That Mythos. But In Reality They Are Just As Much An Artistic Creation As The Anthropomorphic Gods They Replaced.

Within A Metaphysics Of Quality, Science Is A Set Of Static Intellectual Patterns Describing This Reality, But The Patterns Are Not The Reality They Describe.

I Really Don't Mind Dying Because I Figure I Haven't Wasted This Life.

To An Experienced Zen Buddhist, Asking If One Believes In Zen Or One Believes In The Buddha, Sounds A Little Ludicrous, Like Asking If One Believes In Air Or Water. Similarly Quality Is Not Something You Believe In, Quality Is Something You Experience.