Another great post, Vincent. George at Shakespeare & Co. was right: why write another book about Zen? Surely the whole point of Zen is that you don't 'get' satori by reading a book, or writing a book. All the Zen stories, koans, anecdote,s are about sudden awareness that 'Zen' or satori was there all along, we just didn't notice it because we were too busy reading about it or writing about it or looking for Masters to teach it to us. The Zen Master hits the pupil on the head with a hammer and says: there! Now you've 'got' what Zen is.
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Another great post, Vincent.George at Shakespeare & Co. was right: why write another book about Zen? Surely the whole point of Zen is that you don't 'get' satori by reading a book, or writing a book. All the Zen stories, koans, anecdote,s are about sudden awareness that 'Zen' or satori was there all along, we just didn't notice it because we were too busy reading about it or writing about it or looking for Masters to teach it to us. The Zen Master hits the pupil on the head with a hammer and says: there! Now you've 'got' what Zen is.
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I come to your posts with no fixed expectation. I have discerned that you are on a journey of developing awareness. Experience has taught me that the material I read here will not be second-hand but unique to the path that you have traveled through life. If you are passing some familiar landmarks, however, you are not circumscribing a circle but ascending a spiral staircase.
Another great post, Vincent.
George at Shakespeare & Co. was right: why write another book about Zen? Surely the whole point of Zen is that you don't 'get' satori by reading a book, or writing a book. All the Zen stories, koans, anecdote,s are about sudden awareness that 'Zen' or satori was there all along, we just didn't notice it because we were too busy reading about it or writing about it or looking for Masters to teach it to us. The Zen Master hits the pupil on the head with a hammer and says: there! Now you've 'got' what Zen is.
Another great post, Vincent.George at Shakespeare & Co. was right: why write another book about Zen? Surely the whole point of Zen is that you don't 'get' satori by reading a book, or writing a book. All the Zen stories, koans, anecdote,s are about sudden awareness that 'Zen' or satori was there all along, we just didn't notice it because we were too busy reading about it or writing about it or looking for Masters to teach it to us. The Zen Master hits the pupil on the head with a hammer and says: there! Now you've 'got' what Zen is.
I come to your posts with no fixed expectation. I have discerned that you are on a journey of developing awareness. Experience has taught me that the material I read here will not be second-hand but unique to the path that you have traveled through life. If you are passing some familiar landmarks, however, you are not circumscribing a circle but ascending a spiral staircase.
With gratitude and appreciation, ellie.