Mike,
Yep, folks may always disagree with the personality of the Zen school, but
suffice it to say -- and I hope, to understand -- that the Zen school is not
the Teaching School.
The "Don't-know Mind" is the one that I think people in Zen practice most
helpfully bring into practice situations. If we go in armed with images,
models, conceptions -- someone ELSE'S wisdom -- we often use those arms against
ourselves, mitigating against an awakening opportunity.
I've sensed it's a very delicate business, sometimes. Better --in OUR way --
to arrive empty handed, empty fisted. Nothing to grasp, nothing to carry you
to the other shore.
This is the way that compassionate geniuses have set up our practice. I won't
disagree with their hearts.
Other geniuses have set up other schools' practices. Bless their hearts, too.
We get to choose which is our school. And then to choose whether to be true to
it.
--Joe
> "mike" <uerusuboyo@...> wrote:
>
> Joe,
>
> I thought my response struck a perfect balance between serious and comic!
> Guess all those years of watching M*A*S*H didn't pay off.
>
> I hear what yor're saying *but* I don't necessarily agree with the idea that
> being exposed to some truths lessens the impact, or ability, to sudden
> awakening. Usually when we think we've 'got it' we get our arses kicked by a
> break thru and the realisation there's a whole lot more (or more accurately,
> less) to what we previously believed.
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