Edgar,
No, Edgar, it is not BS.
(If you need someone to attack, try Paintball).
A lot of self-enlightened fools traipse the streets of the world. They are not
awake. Are you one? No, I think you worked with a teacher, once.
The methods of Zen are Medicine, and the Teacher is Medicine, too. So is a
Sangha.
You cannot do the work to awaken on your own. The fact that you think it is on
"your" own is what keeps you in the small bottle, and prevents You from flowing
out to expand to the walls of the infinite aquarium.
Take the medicine; awaken; be well; and *then* your last line is finally true.
Not before.
Of course not everybody wants to or can do that, even if it means never
awakening. But when these fools represent themselves as masters and demean or
deprecate Practice, they are not to be suffered gladly, nor suffered at all.
Yes, it's everywhere. So are the unoxidizable tools of awakening, waiting in
the shed, available to you and to everyone if you want to see a change.
Go for it!
Or maybe you've done this at some time, and still remember it.
--Joe
> Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote:
>
> Joe,
>
> This is BS.
> [snip]
> Zen is not to be found in a teacher or monastery. It's everywhere right in
> front of your nose..
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