Hi Michael,
In Chapter 32 in LILA, RMP wrote:
"While sustaining biological and social patterns
Kill all intellectual patterns.
Kill them completely
And then follow Dynamic Quality
And morality will be served."
Marsha:
I was trying to answer the question explaining what I understood "Kill all
intellectual patterns." to mean. I choose the quote from Steve Hagen's book
because it best represents how I understand/experience the statement and the
book comes so highly recommended to Anthony McWatt by RMP personally. He wrote
to Anthony:
"While I am thinking about it there is a very good book on Buddhism recently
out called 'Buddhism, Plain and Simple', by Steve Hagen and published by Tuttle
Publishing. I recommend you get it because it shows the similarities, between
the MOQ and Zen Buddhism more clearly than any other I have seen."
(Pirsig to McWatt, May 6th 1998)
Marsha:
Here is the quote I chose to represent my response:
“Twenty-five hundred years ago...
“When the Buddha was asked to sum up his teaching in a single word, he said,
“awareness.” ...
“Not awareness of something in particular, but awareness itself --- being
awake, alert, in touch with what is actually happening."
(Hagen, Steve, ‘Buddhism: Plain and Simple’, p.3)
Marsha:
Awareness.
I like the Zen stories. I have a deep interest and respect for all the various
Buddhist traditions. Along with reading scholarly tomes, I continue to read
some of the sutras. From the Diamond Sutra, Buddha suggests that all dharma be
contemplated thus:
"All conditioned dharmas
Are like dreams, illusions, bubbles, shadows,
Like dew drops and a lightning flash.
Contemplate them thus."
Marsha
On Nov 16, 2012, at 7:19 PM, "Michael R. Brown" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Zen purports to lead its adherents to insights akin to that mentioned by
> Śākyamuni Buddha in his Flower Sermon in which he held up a white flower and
> just admired it in his hand.[2] Mahākāśyapa smiled faintly, and Śākyamuni
> Buddha picked that disciple as one who truly understood him and who was
> worthy to be his successor. -
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mah%C4%81k%C4%81%C5%9Byapa
>
> This is why one of my major usernames, on AIM for instance, is Kasyapa.
>
>
> MRB
>
> On 11/16/2012 3:53 PM, MarshaV wrote:
>
> [ snip ] “Twenty-five hundred years ago... “When the Buddha was asked to sum
> up his teaching in a single word, he said, “awareness.” ... “Not awareness of
> something in particular, but awareness itself --- being awake, alert, in
> touch with what is actually happening. (Hagen, Steve, ‘Buddhism: Plain and
> Simple’, p.3)
>
>
>
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