--- In [email protected], mike brown <uerusuboyo@...> wrote:
>
> ED,
>
> Just go along with what feels intuitively right for you. I bought my
book 4 years ago when I was in Australia, but only felt like reading it
now. If you're really more interested in finding out about the man, then
maybe Low's book can wait.
> > In this respect, Hakuin's words may be a useful corrective to some
of the more diffuse, feel-good, self-satisfying elements of the New Age.
> I couldn't agree more. Zen isn't just about making ourselves cope with
stressful life situations, personality or behaviour 'faults'. Zen will
not necessarily fix our little peculiarities anymore than psychotherapy
will get us enlightened ("Freud is not Buddha, and Buddha is not Freud"
as Ken Wilber says).
YES, Buddha Nature is Buddha Nature, and Human Nature is Human Nature,
and they CO-EXIST.
> Zazen can make us less stressful, more pleasant to be around, and
somewhat wiser, but the journey to the heart of Zen only truly begins
with that flash of insight (much like the black belt in karate is the
true beginner).
> Mike
Why is 'the heart of Zen' viewed as The Holy Grail?
---ED
