Mike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
--- 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. Â
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: ED <seacrofter001@...>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Sat, 26 March, 2011 0:21:45
> Subject: [Zen] Clues to the meaning of Zen
>
> Â
> Â
> 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.shtml
> Â
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