--- In [email protected], Chris Austin-Lane <chris@...> wrote:
>
> I find the direction zen is leading me is not away from my feelings and
> toward logical thought, but towards an ability to thoroughly know my
> feelings without subsequently doing regrettable things. Feelings are
> inseparable from living.
>
> I find the idea that logic and reason can be effective goal setters to be
> oddly at odds with reality. Logic and reason are very useful servants but
> they cannot provide a context for decision making.
>
> When I sit, at least, I see a wild system of counter balancing impulses and
> tendencies; I can hope to respect the balance and stop cranking up the
> static, to let the systems do their jobs, but I must say making it into a
> system governed by logic and reason, not gonna happen. :-) but that is
> fine, the idea of a man governed by logic is just an (enjoyable) fantasy.
>
> Live long and prosper,
>
> --Chris
Hi Chris. Logic is useful from the relative view-point, but cannot
apprehend The Unborn. Here is a quote, not from a Zen Buddhist, but
rather the Roman philosopher Plotinus: "The analytic reason, if it
wants to say anything at all, must seize first one element of what
it is looking at and then the next; such are the conditions of
analytic thought. But how is this to ever comprehend the absolutely
Uncompounded?...Strip away everything!"
Steve
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