Anthony, The supposed quote below is not a koan. Not all dialogs or statements about zen are koans. For example the dialog used in the koan Mu is not in-and-of-itself a koan: 'Does a dog have Buddha Nature?' 'Mu'. It needs to be turned into a koan by a teacher when presenting it to his/her student in the form a request for a response from the student. And this is DEFINTIELY NOT a request to return a 25-page, single-spaced exegesis explaining the student's understanding of what Joshu meant by his reply 'Mu'.
My distillation of this dialog (not a response to a koan) is: - The questioner asked if zen practice (Buddha Nature) supported categorizations and valuations. - The responder indicated that it did not. Bill! --- In [email protected], Anthony Wu <wuasg@...> wrote: > > > > The following was a conversation from Kapleau Roshi. > > Questioner: 'can I practice Zen and be a good Catholic?' > > Roshi: 'If you practice Zen, you can, but if you practice Zen Buddhism, you > can't.' > > Questioner: 'why not?' > > Roshi: To practice Zen Buddhism means to transcend yourself. To transcend > yourself means to forget yourself. When that happens, you are neither a good > Catholic nor a good Zen Buddhist.' > > Can anybody shed light on the koan? > > Anthony > ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
