- Except nobody will tell you the rules
- Except nobody will tell you who won
- Except nobody will tell you what team they are on
I was thinking that there are three variables in the success of the Olympic Zenners.
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Persistence. If you don't understand the text or you don't find the text or you don't want to read the text... will you try again?
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Dedication. How much of whatever time/money you have do you dedicate to Zen study?
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Clarity. How much of what you read do you remember? How much of what anybody says do you test? How vigorous are you in your analysis of dialogues, your comparisons of translations, your pattern recognition?
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Welcome link; ewk comment: who? We get all kinds of people who score all over the place in levels of effort... some people read a book by Alan Watts or look up "Zen Buddhism" on wikipedia and call it a day.
Enlightenment may be non-causal... but the ability to participate in a conversation about Zen teachings? That's work.
Submitted April 19, 2021 at 08:49AM by ewk https://ift.tt/3amooHj
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