Bill, A new low in total New Age comic book Zen crap!
It's impossible to read with a mind that has cut off all thinking. And most emphatically NO books are the truth much less ALL books... I do agree that the barking of a dog or the crowing of the rooster are better Zen teachings than the books of the Zen masters though... Maybe it's a mistranslation problem???? Edgar On Feb 21, 2013, at 9:49 AM, Bill! wrote: > "If you are thinking, you can't understand Zen. Anything that can be written > in a book, anything that can be said — all this is thinking ... but if you > read with a mind that has cut off all thinking, then Zen books, sutras and > Bibles are all the truth. So is the barking of a dog or the crowing of a > rooster. All things are teaching you at every moment, and these sounds are > even better teaching than Zen books. > > SEUNG SAHN - Seung Sahn Haeng Won Dae Soen-sa, born Dok-In Lee, was a Korean > Jogye Seon master and founder of the international Kwan Um School of Zen—the > largest Zen institution present in the Western world. > >
