12-28-2008, 12:00 AM
seeitall wrote:
Blue totem wrote:
If you want, with a little creativity, you can say a duck is a giraffe.
Buddhism is about love, Don Juan's philosophy is about war.
hmm, my knowledge about buddhism is limited,
but when you read for example Gautama Buddha's Four noble truths
it speaks about suffering and about the way leading to the cessation of suffering.
No allusion to love anywhere in this text.
My impression is that the original teaching was not primarily about love but "discipline".
Don Juan says: The Universe is predatory
Siddharta says: The World is a hellish, blazing furnace (of pain and suffering)
Don Juan speaks of a path with a heart... to find hate in that is twisted, to say the least.
Amy Wallace describes stalking as "psychopathic behaviour". In the case of Castaneda she just might be right. Don Juan was different. He didn't
even bothered with dull normals. Castaneda loved to play with them (and occasionally *** them).
As for reading between the lines, there is something called paranoia also.
Blue totem wrote:
If you want, with a little creativity, you can say a duck is a giraffe.
Buddhism is about love, Don Juan's philosophy is about war.
hmm, my knowledge about buddhism is limited,
but when you read for example Gautama Buddha's Four noble truths
it speaks about suffering and about the way leading to the cessation of suffering.
No allusion to love anywhere in this text.
My impression is that the original teaching was not primarily about love but "discipline".
Don Juan says: The Universe is predatory
Siddharta says: The World is a hellish, blazing furnace (of pain and suffering)
Don Juan speaks of a path with a heart... to find hate in that is twisted, to say the least.
Amy Wallace describes stalking as "psychopathic behaviour". In the case of Castaneda she just might be right. Don Juan was different. He didn't
even bothered with dull normals. Castaneda loved to play with them (and occasionally *** them).
As for reading between the lines, there is something called paranoia also.