https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSYw502dJNY&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtOeEc9ME62zTfqc0h6Pe8vb
So, I'm gonna ask you to read critically, to look closely at a text and pay attention to the subtle ways the author is trying to communicate the full complexity of human experience, but I'm not asking you to go symbol-hunting because reading is supposed to be some treasure map in which you discover symbols, write them down, and then get an A in class.
I'm asking you to read critically because, by understanding language, you will (1) have a fuller understanding of lives other than your own, which (2) will help you to be more empathetic
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(Welcome link) Meet ewk link note: /r/zen gets more than it's fair share of people complaining about the forum, attitudes in the forum, people in the forum, the subject of the forum, the moderation of the forum, etc. and one of my favorite complaints is the "meanness" complaint... which not only flies in the fact of the Zen tradition of being outright insulting, but it deliberately misrepresents the point of a forum like this: empathy for Zen Masters, not for church, not for people with wet-paper-bag faiths, not internet bozos.
Empathy for the subject of the forum: Zen.
So we are here to argue about what we read and whether we find it meaningful or practical, we aren't here to make excuses for illiterates or pander to religious anti-historical doctrines or play nice with people who insult us.
We are here to study Zen.
Submitted January 22, 2020 at 10:50AM by ewk https://ift.tt/36gT87m
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