Re: "The Way of the Pilgrim"
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Thu, 21 Oct 1999 07:02:42 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 10/21/99 2:31:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
cbaader@casecorp.com writes:
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Regards,
Cecilia.
(Oh, and by the way, I left my little typo in the original message because
it's been bugging be ever since I sent it out and I caught it...
bibliographic information, not biographic. Here I am, a stickler for
everyone else's language, and I mess up my own. My only excuse is that I
was working on the biography of Woolf for a presentation that I needed to
make, and I'm an idiot. That's all.)
> -----Original Message----- >>
Well, first off, it's not "Rooted" in the Christian faith if it is indeed
found in every major religion :).
Next, you need to remember that in Salinger you have a presentation of
Christianity (F and Z is the closest you're going to get) from the point of
view of one committed to an Eastern viewpoint -- a westerner's version of an
Eastern viewpoint, but still an Eastern Viewpoint. The monism behind this
point of view will tend to emphasize similarities in religions and
de-emphasize differences.
However, that being said, there are similarities between Christian mysticism
and the mysticism of other faiths. There are some similarities between
Christian apophasis and Buddhist apophasis. But there are also radical
differences.
Once you've observed the phenomena, you also need to observe that a Christian
and, say, a Buddhist will explain the phenomena very differently.
Not that you are guilty of this, but it's pretty dishonest to ignore that
last fact. I only say it because a lot of people do.
Jim