Edgar,
Gaa-ackk.
Our way is not a Vaudeville act.
Anyway, go ahead and take your teaching to a sangha you form. You might create
yet a sixth school of the Zen sect, to replace one of the ones which died out.
Go carefully. Wishes,
--Joe
> Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote:
>
> Zen in daily life is very simple.
>
> Illusion IS reality.
>
> This is easy to understand with an analogy. A magician's trick is reality. It
> actually happens and is actually real. The illusion is being fooled by it
> because you don't understand how it works. The reality is understanding it.
> The reality of the magician's trick IS that it is a REAL illusion.
>
> Similarly all of reality, every bit of the reality of daily life, is a
> magician's trick. Everything that exists is reality but nothing is as it
> initially appears to be. It is this misunderstanding of reality that is
> illusion. To properly understand the illusion you must use mind and reason to
> figure it out. Only then can you actually move beyond reason to directly
> experience it for what it actually is.
>
> Only then can you directly experience the true nature of things, that reality
> is illusion and illusion is reality.
>
> This is the meaning of "Mountains are mountains again"....
>
> This is bringing Zen to daily life...
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