Yeah, of all Salinger's stories I think Teddy is the most clearly influenced by Eastern thought. Jim On Thu, 17 Sep 1998 19:38:29 -0400 gpaterso@richmond.edu writes: >>Now, by "eastern" I'm speaking of the Vedas, really, and beliefs >>influenced by them. Esp. the Upanishads. The chief revelation for a >>human being to attain within the context of the Upanishads is to >realize >>that "I am God and God is me." That there is no difference between >the >>individual and the Divine--between anything and the Divine. That God >is >>the ground of all being and the underlying substance of everything. >And >>that, therefore, all differences are moot--are illusory, in fact. > >... > >>That's what makes your statements really interesting. I think, >within >>the context of the spirituality underlying Salinger's work, that when >we >>say, "wait, it was us all along," that is true. It was us AND it was >>God, because there is no difference between the two. >> >>Jim > >Salinger himself made this clear also in "Teddy" when Teddy discusses >an >incident to that guy (I REALLY should remember his name) where he was >staring at his sister pouring milk into a glass, and realized that his >sister was God, and the glass was God, and the milk was God, and that >"God was pouring God into God." > > >________________________________________________________ > > G.H.G.A.Paterson (804)662-3737 gpaterso@richmond.edu >________________________________________________________ > > _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]