{"id":108,"date":"2003-03-22T12:07:34","date_gmt":"2003-03-22T19:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/?p=108"},"modified":"2003-03-22T12:07:34","modified_gmt":"2003-03-22T19:07:34","slug":"silliness-blessedness-and-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2003\/03\/22\/silliness-blessedness-and-wisdom\/","title":{"rendered":""Silliness, Blessedness and Wisdom""},"content":{"rendered":"

I was browsing through Major Fun’s weblog<\/a> a day or so ago and found this<\/a> (scroll down to the second entry). At the moment it seems like a good thing to share. It makes me think, too, of the connection between the Old English root word saelig<\/em>, “holy, blessed”, and its descendant-word “silly”, and a sense in the literature of the older dialects of English that crazy or “simple” people were under the protection of God. …”The folly of Heaven is wiser than the wisdom of men…” (Now where does that come from? Sounds like it might be C.S. Lewis: or possibly Lewis quoting someone else.)<\/p>\n

In any case, the reference to the Zohar has a Zen ring to it. So often, after issuing a koan, one Zen master or another just breaks up in gales of laughter and wanders away: and often enough, when a student “gets it”, the same result ensues….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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