Mayka, now we are getting on the same wavelength. --ED
--- In [email protected], Maria Lopez <flordel...@...> wrote:>
Mike: Fair enough if you need the little hand from the scientific
articles to get where you can't with your zen practice alone. I think as
Bill here and science articles are not relevant to zen practice. On the
other hand if science articles is relevant to you and others, I don't
object to it. As ED said: "Different strokes for different folk".
Mayka Bill!, Well, I can't speak for others, but this zen
practioner finds such articles both interesting and helpful. Science
helps us get down to the 'nuts and bolts' of how and why things are what
they are. I'm not completely *all* for the jettisoning of the more
traditional/arcane side of Zen and meditation (I also like the gongs and
incense etc), but an understanding of what physically/mentally happens
to us as a result of meditation weakens the grip of the
supernatural/esoteric aspects sometimes afforded to Zen/zen. If we
think, and appreciate, that science has helped us debunk most religious
dogma and superstition, then I find it hypocritical to not turn the
light of science on zen. Or perhaps we'd secretly like to keep zen "cool
and mysterious"... ; ) Mike
