On 3/25/2014 7:10 PM, anartax...@yahoo.com wrote:
So, what do you make of the first sentence on the page you linked to at the bottom of your post. If Buddhism is all about enlightenment, what does this experience represent? Does it indicate that all those commentaries and books, which presumably discuss enlightenment, might have something wrong with them? Like maybe they were all nonsense?
> "A special teaching outside the scriptures; no dependance on words."
"Immediately following his Awakening experience Zen master Te Shan burnt all of his commentaries and books on Zen that he had carried with him everywhere he went."
