--- In [email protected], "ED" <seacrofter001@...> wrote:
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> The intellectual mind-set of our society, to a significant extent, does
> appear to be somewhat deadened and out of touch with reality.
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> On the other hand there is no evidence that realizing Buddha Nature
> makes a person more moral or kinder or emotionally and psychologically
> more balanced or astute.
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> One's 'seeing' or 'knowing' can be as illusory as the opinions of the
> dianoetic mind.
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> --ED
Hi ED. One criticism I have of Zen, at least as it seems to often be
practiced in the West, is this notion that negative conditioned samskaras will
just vanish with clear seeing. It takes real work. Buddha said that it was like
swimming against the current. IMO, many Western Zennists are too smitten with
Wisdom at the expense of practical Compassion. A friend of mine once commented
that he wasn't so much interested in how wise a person had become but rather
whether or not that person had learned to be kind.
Steve
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