This was also the job of the priests too. They used to explain everything to their congregation and in that way the congregation didn't have the need to go into any practise leading them to see from within. And I'm not saying that the article may not be interesting to some audience. I'm only stating that there is no other way to understand zen but the way of the practise. And understanding here means from within beyond duality. No one can't explain zen as there nothing to be explained but only to give some guidance and tools for it in order to have the real experience of it. The words from someone else won't make you understand better zen though you may think that it will. And again it doesn't mean in anyway that the article wasn't uninteresting. On the other hand if you find it helpful to you, by no meanings keep the thread going!. At the end of the day we only ones know how the drama kicks into better. Good luck with it!. I heard a Teacher saying: "Believe in yourself capacities of awakening. The Buddha is in everyone the same". Mayka --- On Sun, 20/2/11, ED <[email protected]> wrote:
From: ED <[email protected]> Subject: [Zen] Re: An Article of Interest To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, 20 February, 2011, 17:49 Hi Steve, Zen, like most religious or spiritual paths and practices is riddled with unstated or unexamined assumptions and ambiguities. The article facilitates the task of identifying them. --ED --- In [email protected], "SteveW" <eugnostos2000@...> wrote: > Hi ED. While I certainly did find the article interesting, I am not likely to start chanting a mantra to it, like the Nichiren people do with the Lotus Sutra. Steve --- In [email protected], "ED" <seacrofter001@...> wrote: > > Hello Steve and All, > > This is an extremely informative and brilliantly insightful article, > and should be studied and discussed sentence by sentence and paragraph > by paragraph to help eradicate any illusions and delusions we might hold > concerning Zen teachings, Zen practice and Zen teachers. > > Should anyone choose a sentence, paragraph or section of the article > that puzzles them, I would look forward to hearing members' viewpoints, > and contributing my own two bits to the discussion. > > Steve, thank you for bringing this article to our notice. > > --ED
