--- In [email protected], "Joe" <desert_woodworker@...> wrote: > > And it will be, at the moment the mad-mind stops, as samadhi breaks > up suddenly, or tears down the middle before one's eyes, in awakening. > > It's a nice write-up, is it your own piece of writing, Pudgala? > pudgala2: Thank you Joe. Yes, I do my own writing. And thank you for letting me post here.
> I would only say it speaks a little too plainly, however (as I have > a tendency to do, too). We mustn't warn or inform people too closely > about what is to be the content of their surprise. Zen is not "the > Teaching School". > > Well, see if you come to agree. > pudgala2: Zen is direct pointing. Zen teaches by being. > (we don't find such direct speech in the scriptures, so I think your > write-up is actually unorthodox, and, for the sake of all beings, > ought to be suppressed) > > --Joe > pudgala2: Authentic self expression appears to be unorthodox it does not imitate but flowers out of the ortho-box. > > "pudgala2" pudgala2@ wrote: > > > Sentient being is the most misunderstood and misused concept in > > Buddhism. > > It must be thoroughly penetrated and understood [snip] >
