Hi, Merle,
Merle wrote:
"you have to be rational to survive joe"
Maybe that's true. Is an amoeba rational? How about a Gum tree?
Even though we Humans use and need reason for some parts of life as
it is lived lately, reason is useless and a pernicious hindrance to
awakening. Not everybody knows this.
In a Zen forum, we do not sing the praises of reason.
In our practice, we simply let it go. It's a useless activity.
When you need reason, pick it up again.
So it goes for me, and other practitioners of my acquaintance, and our teachers.
--Joe
> Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote:
>
> you have to be rational to survive joe...merle
>
> Joe,
>
> I agree with you about all this.
>
> I too was educated in and used rationality intensely in my profession -
> computers/data analysis. It's very useful for making a living.
>
> Modern Western education is primarily about memorization and secondarily
> about rationality.
>
> Zen is about experience.
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