Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Being Zenny
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Oh... My... God! I love 'The Buddah!' I am so, so... 'Zenny!' Really!
Zen is a psychological attitude, derived from an admixture of Buddaism and Taoism. Zen is, 'Buddah meets Lao Tzu.' These 'Eastern religions' are opposed to 'western religions' which rely on ancient myth. The 'Eastern' religions are 'psychological' in nature, whereas the 'Western' religions are 'historical' in nature.
This brings us immediately to the problems with religion: History vs Psychology.
It is important to realize at the outset that Western Religion is 'mythical' in nature whereas Eastern Religion is 'testable' in nature, relatively speaking. Eastern Religion is far more 'testable' than the Western variety because any Eastern devotee can 'do the math' (meditate).
Western religion, on the other hand, requires 'faith.' And furthermore that 'faith' is not testable. It comes down to a question methodoly.
On a deeper level it is a question of pragmatism. What works better?
Oh... My... God! I love 'The Buddah!' I am so, so... 'Zenny!' Really!
Zen is a psychological attitude, derived from an admixture of Buddaism and Taoism. Zen is, 'Buddah meets Lao Tzu.' These 'Eastern religions' are opposed to 'western religions' which rely on ancient myth. The 'Eastern' religions are 'psychological' in nature, whereas the 'Western' religions are 'historical' in nature.
This brings us immediately to the problems with religion: History vs Psychology.
It is important to realize at the outset that Western Religion is 'mythical' in nature whereas Eastern Religion is 'testable' in nature, relatively speaking. Eastern Religion is far more 'testable' than the Western variety because any Eastern devotee can 'do the math' (meditate).
Western religion, on the other hand, requires 'faith.' And furthermore that 'faith' is not testable. It comes down to a question methodoly.
On a deeper level it is a question of pragmatism. What works better?
