ED, >Do you assert below that Zen is a mystery that cannot be probed with the >ordinary mind, and can only be apprehended through an experience of the state >of >kensho-satori, after an act of faith and years or decades of shikantaza?<
Zen is waking up, eating breakfast and taking a dump - no mystery at all. You
don't need precepts. You don't need Zen Buddhism. And you don't need someone to
explain how to do them. Ordinary mindis the way.
Mike
