Sunday, April 18
Blog Sensation Sweeping the Nation
... according to DaveTown, at least, which is good enough for me:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
Ok, so, from Straight to the Heart of Zen:
"How brilliantly the Chinese Zen Master Mumon has taken an incident from an Indian sutra and turned it into a koan, one that allows us to clarify prrna wisdom, which is quite different from mere philosophical teaching."
It's from a book on Zen I'm using for a course on world religions. It turns out that Zen is perhaps the only religion without any real doctrine; it is Buddhist insofar as it seeks the same experience of Enlightenment which the Buddha is said to hae experienced, but it seeks this experience non-intellectually. It's really pretty fascinating.
... according to DaveTown, at least, which is good enough for me:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
Ok, so, from Straight to the Heart of Zen:
"How brilliantly the Chinese Zen Master Mumon has taken an incident from an Indian sutra and turned it into a koan, one that allows us to clarify prrna wisdom, which is quite different from mere philosophical teaching."
It's from a book on Zen I'm using for a course on world religions. It turns out that Zen is perhaps the only religion without any real doctrine; it is Buddhist insofar as it seeks the same experience of Enlightenment which the Buddha is said to hae experienced, but it seeks this experience non-intellectually. It's really pretty fascinating.
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