Chris, Tnx!
I love the Old Man. I attended the "First International Dogen Conference", in a hotel downtown in New York City, 1979. I was a Philosopher at Columbia, at the time. But I'd undergone an awakening with my shih-fu, Sheng Yen, a while *just* earlier, in late Spring. What I heard in that weekend was more egregiously (merely-) academic than what I taught uptown, and I thought this was not appropriate. It was a dis-service to Master Dogen, as I heard it. The papers delivered were rigorously academic, impeccably so, in fact. This is why I had to dismiss them, ...for MYSELF. An old (very!) decrepit Chinese man stood up in the cheap seats, where I sat at the Conference, spoke well, and said: "What you are all saying is minutely correct but decidedly academic. What about PRACTICE!? In the Chinese way, which Dogen learned in the years before 1234 A.D. in China, all the Ch'an tradition is about practice, and awakening to the HEART [he meant MIND] of the Buddha in ourselves. What about THAT?" The paper-presenters essentially pushed him back into his seat. He left before Lunch. Mr. "Mao". I never saw the wise codger again. I left academic Philosophy at the end of that Semester. Gave notice. Easy for a non-tenured upstart to do, with no loss, except of one's favorite students. ;-) And became, well, some sort of Scientist. But, remain a Practitioner. Like Mr. Mao!, my hero, and patron. Somewhere; he may be practicing in Tushita Heaven with Maitreya Buddha. Bless his ass. ;-) --Joe --- In [email protected], Chris Austin-Lane <chris@...> wrote: > > http://www.thezensite.com/ZenTeachings/Dogen_Teachings/Shobogenzo/039gabyo.pdf > > You will note gabyo in the link URL. > > There are something like 97 chapters in Shobogenzo ("Right.Treasury of the > Dharma Eye" iirc. ) > [snip-ster] ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
