Edgar,
Welcome home!
Right.
And if you knew Aitken Roshi, you'd be exhausted by now even just FOLLOWING the
activism that he engaged in, much less participating in it with him. ;-)
But I don't know where the notion of passivity of/as Zen practitioners comes
from, which you mention. That may be the outsiders' view, due to "media" lack
of understanding, going just one half millimeter deep; but it's not the view
from the inside / our side. As you know!
Whatever's necessary is what GOES. Look out, passivists, and paci-fists. Here
come REAL Fists! We are the true kung-fu. ;-)
Nihilism is knee-hilism: Not in MY "zen"! ;-)
Zen-mind operates in a way opposite to "total passivity and nihilism'; never
heard of such baloney / bullshit before now, in all my life. It is the
Life-of-Life, instead; and not a sickly concept. Again, you know.
Just agreeing with you.
--Joe
> Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote:
>
> Merle,
>
> Absolutely admirable!
>
> In spite of what some would have us believe Zen does not require total
> passivity and nihilism.
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