Chris,
Anger is bound to get a student a swift swat with an agile stick.
That's why I make my sticks as I do: agile; swift; flexible; noisy; durable.
Of quarter-sawn timber. Sometimes plain-sawn. I make them to last several
lifetimes, but a teacher usually only exercises them for a single lifetime, as
far as I know, then passes them on. So far, so good. No complaints! Not even
from students... .
--Joe
> Chris Austin-Lane <chris@...> wrote:
>
> I was going to say that in all my conversations with people studying koans
> and all my reading of zen, I have never before run into a claim of solving a
> koan. However, in fact, there is a book called After Zen about a Dutch
> detective who becomes disillusioned with Zen (Rinzai school, as practised in
> Canada at a remote monastery) and who found his tradition to be a bit
> abusive, which has a scene where the author and another former student
> discuss how demonstrating anger is necessary for the teacher to pass a
> student.
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