Mike,
Which book about Hakuin are you currently reading?
--ED
--- In [email protected], mike brown <uerusuboyo@...> wrote:
>
> ED,
>
> I'm reading a book right now about Hakuin and his focus on the kensho
> experience. Certainly makes sense to me. It could also be argued,
however, that
> for some people that relentless pursuit of kensho pushes them ever
further from
> it. I also notice that D. T. Suzuki was of the same mind as
Hakuin:
>
> According to D. T. Suzuki, "Satori is the raison d'être of Zen,
without which
> Zen is no Zen. Therefore every contrivance, disciplinary and
doctrinal, is
> directed towards satori." (Wiki search for 'satori').
>
> Mike
> ED posted:
> > "For Hakuin, what was most important was the breakthrough *kensho*
experience, reached after years of rigorous meditation practice; apart
from *kensho*, the words and ideas of Zen are worthless and
meaningless.
Hakuin's Zen represents a level of authenticity consonant with the
height of Zen in the T'ang Dynasty."
> > "It is a Zen that focuses on the central matter relentlessly, and
has absolutely no use for anything that serves to distract from this."
