Re: godot troubled by zen (intentionally lowercase)
AntiUtopia (AntiUtopia@aol.com)
Tue, 17 Mar 1998 07:02:46 -0500 (EST)
Good, passionate, honest post about Zen, Colby. I won't speak particularly
and specifically for Zen in American, but I think buddhism is about the
negation of things represented by linear logic and empirical perception for
the sake of attaining "things" (bad word) that transcend linear logic. It's
like ignoring the top layers of the cake to get to the bottom of the damn
thing. It's About the loss of the boundaries of the self to achieve union
with the One Self.
I'm no buddhist, however. Again, this is an outsider talking.
I have run into a few people that can talk about Zen intelligently and
meaningfully and make enough sense about the loss of sense to at least point
to an immediate goal (we attain this in stages). Others I've run into are
just morons who deny the validity of rational thought to hide the fact of
their stupidity.
Jim