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To: "Friends of Triumph" <fot@autox.team.net>,
Subject: Chinese (?) philosophy
From: "John Macartney" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:41:48 -0000
Leon Guyot wrote:

To Buddha, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that
led to suffering. The world was seen as a setter of traps, a generator of
illusions, a revolving wheel of pain for all creatures.

Never having involved myself with Buddha (and with the greatest respect to 
those who have)
I think he must have cut his teeth on a ground up restoration of an MG. This 
would have
equipped him with and taught him something about the inner mysteries of Lucas, 
brought
confucion on the merits of Dot wotsit versus Dot hoojit brake fluid, embroiled 
him in the
trials and errors of mineral vis a vis synthetic engine oil - and all before he 
moved on
to a Triumph with a recalcitrant petrol injection system.
Perhaps this goes some way to explaining why the Indian built Herald and the 
Indian Rover
SD1 (with a 4 cyl TR engine - sort of) were probably never sold outside the 
Indian
sub-continent.

Jonmac




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