You know, I was just thinking about this the other day. My son has all sorts of stuffed toys and dolls and such. The duck is "duck." The baby is "baby." The horse is "horse." Etc. I went over to a friends and every thing there was named (not that I remember any of the names). So, I got to thinking - are we weird? We haven't given any of his things names.
I hadn't thought of it in terms of Eastern/Western philosophies. But, we are much more "let it be" than the neighbors. Hm.... maybe we're more zen than we knew. ;) Of course, my inital thought was that we're bad parents who don't engender enough tender caring to even bother giving his toys names! :P On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 12:56:42 -0600, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin wrote: > > Contrast that with Zen Buddhism that is less about controlling > > and labelling and more about accepting things as they come. > > Whoa - that's good. If you'd like to expand on that, I'd like to hear > it. It's a perspective I hadn't considered before. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:134979 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
