Zen

I am surprised at my progress in understanding Buddhist analysis of knowledge and thought. I was talking with Ruth about it the other day; she is studying some aspect of Zen, I forget exactly what, but there's a reference around here somewhere.

Not until I read Language as Articulate Contact by John  Stewart (not the comedian John Stewart) while I was on vacation in Florida did I possess an adequate basis for understanding anything about the Buddhist critique of understanding.

Now everything has changed.
In essence, I had to come up with a way to view Language as a process totally independent of Ontology (the study of Being);i.e., language has always been viewed as being made up of words which "symbolize" or "stand for" something, thereby implying that there is something to which we are referring that exists in the world.

This is not a good analysis of language, and it is worse philosophy of Being.
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