Well, I won't speak of my own experience, because it is probably valueless,
unless we were just friends speaking informally, and then it would be for
encouragement or just another point of shared contact about a common interest,
between two similar and not different beings, who do not disagree.
So I'll just mention that in the koan curriculum, this is the way it usually
break-down, or breaks-up, and is divided, for our concentrated appreciation:
The first few hundred koans are meant to enable an awakening, and then to
refine it, in which the oneness of all things is clearly seen and can be
clearly expressed;
The next hundred-weight or so are for seeing the differences, and for being
very clear about the diffferences (usually this batch of koans is considered
difficult: they are sometimes called the "hard" koans).
Don't take my word for this. Teachers will disclose this lore to you, even if
it's not the way they teach; they may have heard about it or read about it.
It's in the literature too if you are interested.
Now you know more about it than I do. ;-]
--Joe
> Chris Austin-Lane <chris@...> wrote:
> The below makes it seem you are still trying to divide practice into first
> and following.
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