Hejinian 143: "Suffering was a persistent concern in Leslie Scalapino's work. She can quite accurately be said to have been throughout her life at work on the problem of suffering, a problem that is always under scrutiny by Buddhist philosophy"
take with the footnote Hejinian includes on 288, though: "I am not writing a scheme (not writing 'according to' any philosophy, there's just the writing)"
Hejinian 144: "Buddhist philosophy [...] makes two observations of particular relevance: first, that pain and suffering are ubiquitous and that living as we do in their midst we cannot help but be in a state of terror; and second, that empirical reality is solely phenomenal--a matter of appearances--and we can never see anything as it is [...] first because it doesn't show itself as it is and second because [...] our perceptions are immediately taken over by our intellect [...] a result of and force for conditioning generated by previous experience and the imposition of normative social habits and expectations"