Bill!,
quoting Bill!:
" ...to someone attempting to get a clear picture of Zen."
This is no pat on the back to Edgar for his philosophical characterizations,
nor a critique of your proper critique thereof.
No; I'm just a wise-guy in this second, but I'd like to say that in order "to
get a clear picture of Zen" these days, I spit on the lens, like old Edward
Steichen did, one of the Three Patriarchs of American Photography.
;-}
--Joe
> "Bill!" <BillSmart@...> wrote:
>
> Carl,
>
> I started to respond to Edgar's post below with a detailed account of how it
> uses rhetoric and sophistry to present a pseudo-zen perspective of the
> relationships between 'realization', suffering, "natural design of the web of
> life" and of course zen.
>
> It was just too much for me to take on this morning.
>
> Just BEWARE of Edgar's posts on anything like this to do with zen. They are
> usually at best not an orthodox representation of Zen Buddhist thought and
> therefore misleading; and at worst are a gruesome distortion that is in fact
> completely contradictory and therefore absolutely detrimental to someone
> attempting to get a clear picture of Zen.
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