Re: bad poetry?

You're working in a western context, Luke. Enlightenment in Seymour's
context consists of the realization that discrimination between things
and people and the universe and God is essentially illusory. You could
argue that this still entails a single discrimination -- between reality
and illusion -- but this would be a non-response, since the principle of
non-discrimination is applied to objects in the universe and not ideas.
  At the least, it's not a generic concept, but a directed one.

Don't quite know what this has to do with moon gazing, though :).

Jim

jlsmith3@earthlink.net wrote:
> Seymour was searching for some ultimate spiritual understanding (the "nirvana," but not really that exactly), which by its very nature requires discriminating between ideas that advance him towards this goal, and ideas that don't.
>
> So if we're reading poetry as part of a similar spiritual quest in our own lives, nondiscrimination is impossible. The crap about the moon gazing has to go.
>
> And, more optimistically, a standard for "good poetry," and our own ability to create it, need not be abandoned.
>
> luke

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