I've never heard you describe your lineage as crazy, Joe. My practise at the moment - reading a Percy Jackson book to a very tired 8.5 year old who is fighting the bed time ritual with upset and so on. Q
Thanks, --Chris 301-270-6524 Chris, Anger is bound to get a student a swift swat with an agile stick. That's why I make my sticks as I do: agile; swift; flexible; noisy; durable. Of quarter-sawn timber. Sometimes plain-sawn. I make them to last several lifetimes, but a teacher usually only exercises them for a single lifetime, as far as I know, then passes them on. So far, so good. No complaints! Not even from students... . --Joe > Chris Austin-Lane <chris@...> wrote: > > I was going to say that in all my conversations with people studying koans and all my reading of zen, I have never before run into a claim of solving a koan. However, in fact, there is a book called After Zen about a Dutch detective who becomes disillusioned with Zen (Rinzai school, as practised in Canada at a remote monastery) and who found his tradition to be a bit abusive, which has a scene where the author and another former student discuss how demonstrating anger is necessary for the teacher to pass a student. ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links
