I.D Code Orient OOO14

Reply by John Bee,

Gary [previously]

I have spent all morning with irritating, trivial practical concerns, becoming highly upset and was going to calm myself down by translating that wonderful Marie-Claire Galperine and HER Damascius when I glanced over your letter, saw your notations were in blue and easy to discern, interesting at first,and then downright fascinating, as well as bringing up issues I truly need toclarify for myself.

To set the background, I do not know how much you know about Heidegger. He is impossibly complicated personally,and is poorly understood in the English, German, and French speaking world

[John Bee]

I do not know much about him beyond the fact that I have read very carefully some of his books which include, his Reason ( I believe this is the correct title), Parmenides, Being and Time,and early Greek Philosophers among a few others, and since I think through the Sanskritic paradigms, the Western thinking always receives some native coloring before, I tend to assimilate the material. For example, I would read anything written by Heidegger, Husserl, Merleu-Ponty or Gadamer,  I always do so in the light of Sankarite interpretation of : ananyachintantanyah ye jnaah maampryupaasate... The

Gita 9;22 : when some one complete is one with me ( see Paul Tillich's Systematic Theology vol. I)-- a kind of free translation. Here I believe, I get my coloring of the relationship between the Being and the being, so... I have to learn really how the Western thinking modulates itself on this issue] so, I always put curry into my food

Gary [cont]

I can ONLY recommended Thomas Sheehan without qualification. If you can get his book KARL RAHNER [ I do not have it now, I lost it when I had to go homeless for a while, but I had it when I was a student at the Yale Divinity School]; and I shall see if I can find it again] before it goes out of print, do so. You do not read it for the Rahner, you read it for the background of misunderstanding that Sheehan magnificently defines the real thought of Heidegger. I also guarentee you can get MANY other good things out of it. But get it soon. No one diservedly is interested in Rahner anymore. I am even seriously thinking of ordering a second copy for myself. ALSO, there is a site for Sheehan that has a number of wonderful things by himself as well as demonstrating what kind of truly good and HONEST person he is.

Gary C. Moore