Another Zen saying talks of all the written material on Zen being like
a finger pointing at the moon. The books, etc are the finger...Zen is
the moon. The finger guides us, but if we look only at the finger, we
miss the moon.
Shalom
David Lind
Trickster@postmark.net
Richard Chamberlain wrote:
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> A lot to unpack there and all very interesting. I'd just like to add two
points:
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> 1) You don't get to enlightenment by studying it and I believe, sometimes
desperatly, that it is
> something that science will never be able to get a grasp on. I seem to
remember that, in Zen terms,
> enlightenment comes with the loss of sense of self - maybe 'oceanic
conciousness'. A couple of good
> books (I think) : 'Essays in Zen Buddhism: Vol 1' by D T Suzuki (I think
this is out of print nowadays
> but well worth finding a copy of), 'Franny and Zooey' by J D Salinger.
>
> 2) Other people's enlightenment is rarely of any use to oneself.
>
> If that's of ANY help at all,
>
> richard chamberlain
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