Source/link: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/10sebu9/antimasters/j72g7ez/?context=3
I can't post on that comment thread. But I think that the implications are worth discussing and perhaps clarifying because its the pivot point for a sectarian approach to zen, which even if secular, has the markings of a church.
If you are blissfully basking in the courtyard of one zen master or another and don't care to hang around the place where head monks debate each other to see who is still at the top of the hill, then this post is probably not for you, at least for now: enjoy the breeze carrying the scent of the cherry blossoms, by all means.
But for those who find the nuances of glue pots interesting, we have the paradox of zen students, zen sickness, and ego masquerading as insight.
A person could never have even heard of the word zen and yet be in the zone of zen seeing. We have the record of zen sayings, stories, conversations, but that does not limit zen in the world.
The zen texts do not "trump" the zen experience. Zen is not governed by a set of words, and is not reproducible based on a record. In other words, it arises out the present, not out of the past. Because all experience is experienced in the present.
Presumably, we come to zen to take off any blinders we have on, not to put new blinders on.
On the one hand, there is the matter of a hairs breadth that divides real seeing from make believe, but on the other hand, there is nothing that is not Buddha. I don't detect an inch of sectarian tendency in the real zen masters.
Yet the above quote from one of our mods seems to me to have the markings of a sect or group that wants to have authority over all who pass through the door with the word "zen" hanging over the entrance. Effectively trying to put a gate (and gatekeeper(s)) in front of the land of the gateless.
Discuss:
Submitted February 04, 2023 at 02:00PM by unreconstructedbum https://ift.tt/SGfkJWH
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