Like --- On Wed, 31/8/11, Bill! <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Bill! <[email protected]> Subject: [Zen] Re: Words attempting to describe experiences. To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, 31 August, 2011, 1:47 ED, A non-verbal response is often times preferable to a verbal/written response. This is becaue of the fundamental problem that words communicate concepts, and concepts are at best just a represenation of reality, and at worst are incomplete and misleading. A slap is IMO a good device to communicte Buddha Nature because upon receiving the slap your discriminating mind is halted or at least overridden by the feeling. At that split second you receive the slap all you are experiencing is the slap (later you might describe it as 'pain'). That split second is a brief period of Buddha Nature acting alone and unhindered by your discriminating mind. ...Bill! --- In [email protected], "ED" <seacrofter001@...> wrote: > > > > > Bill and Anthony, > > Is this slapping busniness in consonance with the reputed spontaneity of > Zen? > > Is a traditional slap a more creative response than a conventional > verbal response? > > --ED > > > > --- In [email protected], Anthony Wu <wuasg@> wrote: > > > > Bill, > > > > You have to come closer to my protective demon first to find out if > you can slap him or he slaps you. > > > > Anthony >
