More pre-Socratics

& other stuff about the stuff of the world. Our text today is half about them, Socrates’ precursors, and half about Confucians, Taoists, & Buddhists.

The largest question posed by the juxtaposition of east and early west, seems to me, is whether the world is more a field of strife or of harmony, one or many.

Another interesting  question: what did the Zen master mean by telling his pupil to kill the Buddha? It doesn’t sound very harmonious or compassionate, on its face. But maybe “killing the Buddha,” figuratively, is what we do in philosophy.

PW2… Asian Spirit… Becoming Buddha (Thurman, TED)… The Way (Tao of Pooh, Freddie the Leaf)

Tags: Kill the Buddha, pre-Socratics, The One and the Many (WJ)