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Subject: Be Here Now (was Re: Zen Buddhism)
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In <14546@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> simmonds@demon.siemens.com (Tom Simmonds) writes:


>4. Be Here Now - Ram Dass - published by the Lama Society
>    Not specifically zen, but Buddhist.  This is a fun book, full of 
>    pen-and-ink drawings.  It's somewhat dated in its 60's counterculture
>    attitudes and language, but I find it amusing, having survived my 
>    teens during that period.  In spite of its datedness, it manages to
>    convey many of the basic ideas of Buddhism.

Not Buddhist, but Hindu, with borrowed elements from other eastern philosphies.

One quote I always think of in the book, which rings true with my initial
reactions to Hindu visual arts is, 

	"All I personally felt was this tremendous pull toward Buddhism
	because Hinduism always seemed a little gauche--the paintings were
	a little too gross--the colors were bizarre and the whole thing
	was too melodramatic and too much emotion. I was pulling toward that
	clean, crystal-clear simplicity of the Southern Buddists or the Zen
	Buddhists"



aem

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