ED, [I just wrote]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.
There's been lots of talk about 'faith' and 'belief' here recently. Let me make this quite clear. If anyone disagrees with the above, then they don't know Zen. Mike ________________________________ From: mike brown <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, 31 March, 2011 6:43:49 Subject: Re: [Zen] Re: An Opinion of Thich Nhat Hanh 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
