Mel,
Nice to meet you, here.
Soto is good.
I practiced with a teacher who was heir to both Lin Chi and Tsao Tung.
I came in loving Lin Chi, because of the writings of D.T. Suzuki (really
skewed), but found I did not need the convincing. I felt already that we were
all Buddha. So, that faith made it easy to practice the Soto way. I've had
teeth, etc., into k'ung-ans on retreats, and made mince-meat of them, but chose
to go the Soto way for the long term. Still, if the Doc wants to prescribe a
koan, I'll follow the directions.
But, my teacher teaches (taught: deceased) very much as Lin Chi himself, did;
so, almost every teaching-situation was a k'ung-an. A just remarkable teacher:
Ch'an Master Sheng Yen. RIP: but only for a while; be reborn soon, please, Sir.
Mel, I'm in Tucson, Arizona, USA these days. How about you?
--Joe
> Mel <gunnar19632000@...> wrote:
>
> [snip] ...but describing myself as Soto is probably the closest to what I do
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