AMA II

Hey guys. I'm AMA'ing again. I'm on mobile at work so some replies will be slow or pushed off until this evening. If you'll forgive me I won't be answering the default AMA questions unless one of you specifically want me to. But here are a couple of intro statements:

1. I do meditate, but not for enlightenment.

2. I'm a solo, half-assed student going only by the books I'm casually reading, my own insights on life, and conversations with you lovely people, with no Zen centers or formal teachers or such.

3. You might call me "liberal" Zen insomuch that I think people were becoming enlightened before Zen and still can outside of Zen. I don't think I can discredit Shunryu Suzuki for example because he's probably more of a man of Zen than I'll ever be.

4. I do have a perennialistic view of enlightenment and I think mystics and contemplatives from other places and time periods have locked eyes with Joshu.

5. This is all my current understanding and is as subject to change as everything else in the world is, and I hope you'll all be patient with my blunders. I respect a great number of you.

Submitted February 14, 2018 at 08:02PM by ephemeral_archetype http://ift.tt/2Ckk5Iy