colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) (09/16/86)
> In answer to your proposal, I'll suggest leaving Zen Buddhism out of > the discussion. I recently picked up a book about the subject, and > in browsing through it before reading it I came to the last page where > it was admitted "There is nothing in it" (i.e. Zen Buddhism). It's > amazing that a religion/philosophy survives which candidly admits > its own uselessness. Whoa! It's a long way from "there is nothing in it" to "it's useless." As Eeyore noticed on his birthday, if there's nothing in it you can put things into it and take them out again. "Sitting quietly, doing nothing, And the Net grows by itself." -- Col. G. L. Sicherman UU: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel CS: colonel@buffalo-cs BI: colonel@sunybcs, csdsiche@sunyabvc