Yes, Bill!
quoting:
"As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon
as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw."
Now, what about when that's not so?
The out-of-context line is too glaringly black and white.
What about when you see something, and do not intellectualize?
The Roshi says (incorrectly, because "not always so"), "...you already
start...". What about if you don't? When you don't. Start.
The quote uses too, too broad a brush. As you know!
What you call 'perceptions' or 'delusions', to match the Roshi's
"intellectualizations", my Chan teacher called "Vexations" ...a bit less
neutral-sounding and laudatory than "intellectualizations".
I think he picked a good word, for his English-speaking students' sake. (I'll
see if I can research the Chinese word, and obtain several English synonym
translations, and bring them here).
Vexations we're particularly attached to give us an especially hard time. I
sometimes call them "bewitchments", and I like what the old-fashioned menacing
feel of the term communicates.
--Joe
> "Bill!" <BillSmart@...> wrote:
>
>
> As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it.
> As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.
> ~ Sunryu Suzuki
> I call these intellectualizations 'perceptions' or 'delusions'.
> ...Bill!
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