Today's Topics:
Re: Mental Travel
Blake and Buddhism
Re: Blake&Buddhism?
Mervyn Peake
Re: BLAKE AND SARTRE?
Blake and Epicurus
"The Tyger"
Re: BLAKE AND SARTRE?
Something different
RE: Mervyn Peake
Re: BLAKE AND SARTRE?
Re: Mental Travel -Reply
Re: Blake&Buddhism?
removal
Re: Blake&Buddhism?
Blake discography, was Re: Something different
Re: Blake&Buddhism?
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Date: Tue, 25 Aug 98 19:41:24 +0100 ( + )
From: Paul Tarry
To: Blake Group
Subject: Re: Mental Travel
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Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 16:15:28 -0400
From: "R.H. Albright"
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Subject: Blake and Buddhism
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I personally see many similarities.
The Eternity that both contains time and space and yet is beyond time and
space could be analogous to Nirvana, out of which come Boddhisatvas of
Compassion like Jesus and Milton from time to time.
A recurring theme in Blake is friendship, forgiveness, and words like
"mercy, pity, peace", which could be related to Buddhist compassion, of
understanding self in other. Therefore, as a Buddhist takes heed to not
even kill a fly, we see the poem about the fly in _Songs of Experience_
properly framed, because despite the words saying that a girl is like a
fly, the picture als