[UA] Cultures in animals

[Nick Wedig]

>And there's a thought.  Maybe animals exist in the way they do
>_because_ of the previous invisible Clergy.  There's lions and tigers
>because they embody some part of the previous "Hunter" archetype who
>helped form this world.

Interesting... Other animals are probably combinations of other archetypes, or archetypes from past incarnations (platypi and seahorses work for Mystic Hermaphrodite, other creatures for other archetypes, perhaps archetypes we no longer have).

>Industrial Music does not have the Buddha Nature.

Doesn't that depend on the music involved?  Some Industrial Music might have some, given the right musician.

Relating to the other topic, you seem to have answered the Zen koan "Does a dog have a Buddha-nature".

It also recalls a character I had in mind once who believed a modern adaptation of the beliefs of the 8th (?) century Buddhist Flute Sect, who claimed that all written holy texts are by nature flawed, and so transmitted their teachings purely by travelling around playing flutes and  living ethically.  I imagine him also insisting on making his own instruments, and so constructing synthesizers or flutes like things from scrap.  "The Theremin sect"

Mr. Teapot
Buddhist monk

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