hey hey...is this edgar bashing a "nice "thing to do..look in your own "backyard" before you throw "stones" into edgar's..
are you so squeaky clean?... and totally "zenified"? merle 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!" 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.
