XPost: alt.philosophy.zen, alt.society.liberalism, alt.society.kindness   
   XPost: talk.politics.theory   
   From: stumper@newvessel.com   
      
   NYC XYZ wrote:   
   > Hollywood Lee wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Gak.  It may be visceral.  It may be unmediated by conceptual thinking.   
   >>   But "truth"?  Pure Bushido bullshit.   
   >   
   >   
   > So you think Bushido is a corruption of Zen?   
   >   
   > I've long wondered how Zen can be applied to something like murder.   
   >   
   > Did samurai let themselves off the hook by rationalizing that it wasn't   
   > personal?   
   >   
      
   By saying it's not what you do but how you do it.   
      
   It's not how you do what but who you are here and now.   
      
   --   
   ~Stumper   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)