Mike,
Flattery will get you nowhere. Besides, I venerate the great British source of truth, goodness and beauty. --ED --- In [email protected], mike brown <uerusuboyo@...> wrote: > > ED, > > Why bother with 'clues'? Go straight to the source - pick the book up (or > computer) and hit your head with it. > > Mike > Clues to the meaning of Zen > Because Zen is so hard to explain here are some quotations that may help you get > an idea of it: > * The essence of Zen Buddhism is achieving enlightenment by seeing one's > original mind (or original nature) directly; without the intervention of the > intellect. > * Zen is big on intuitive understanding, on just 'getting it', and not so hot > on philosophising. > * Zen is concerned with what actually is rather than what we think or feel > about what is. > * Zen is concerned with things as they are, without trying to interpret them. > * Zen points to something before thinking, before all your ideas. > * The key to Buddhahood in Zen is simply self-knowledge. > * To be a human being is to be a Buddha. Buddha nature is just another name for > human nature - true human nature. > * Zen is simply to be completely alive. > * Zen is short for Zen Buddhism. It is sometimes called a religion and > sometimes called a philosophy. Choose whichever term you prefer; it simply > doesn't matter. > * Zen is not a philosophy or a religion. > * Zen tries to free the mind from the slavery of words and the constriction of > logic. > * Zen in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being, > and it points the way from bondage to freedom. > * Zen is meditation. > http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/buddhism/subdivisions/zen_1.shtm\ l <http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/buddhism/subdivisions/zen_1.sht\ ml>
