Thank you both
________________________________ From: Charles Gee <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, May 3, 2013 10:48:50 AM Subject: [Zen] Re: blown over by a stick Bill wrote this: "I refer to 'zen' (lower-case 'z') as a common noun and refers just to the kernel of techniques and teachings that lead you to first experience Buddha Nature and then to more fully integrate that experience into your daily life. I use the term 'Buddha Nature' but it is actually just an awareness of pure, unadulterated, holistic sensory experience before the intellect goes to work creating the illusion of dualism and then subjecting experience to all sorts of rational processing such as filtering, augmenting, categorizing, associating, " etc. This is the zen I use every day and the sages who love words, words and more words are unhappily part of the of the intellectual realm that is working overtime complicating simplicity. Charles
