joe...yes indeed... the music comes from the heart..the zen awakening comes as swiftly as a spring rain storm..merle
Merle, For some, the map or path is recorded-music via audio, not writing. Audio records (LPs, 45's, CDs, etc.) are good records of music. The Beatles relied on hundreds of records of American Rhythm and Blues, as did the Rolling Stones. Even without reading a single note of musical notation, they have got the gist. I think they learned, eventually, to read and write music. But their start was in LISTENING. Recorded music can be either by writing, or by audio. You focus only on writing in your post(s). That's not how the Beatles operated. In the Zen tradition, the claim about being not based on writings is NOT that writings are not used in study and training; but instead that the awakening in Zen is not transmitted by writings: it dawns independently, separately, of the scriptures. That is unique. --Joe > Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote: > > Â musical notes are the language used to communicate to others the music > score or plan or map... it is like a map...without a map or a path one would > be lost in the woods...merle
