Hello, I'm new to this subreddit. My journey started from YouTube videos, Alan Watts Quotes and Japanese culture. Presently, I don't believe that these things are necessarily what is relevant to the things that actual Zen Masters teach.
After reading Instant Zen, Gateless Gate, and a few cases from the sidebars, I noticed a recurring "theme" or "dialogue" of some sorts that's repeated by Zen Masters. This doesn't apply to all cases, it's something I noticed. Nothing particularly crazy. It basically goes like this:
"If you do, you will fail. If you don't do, you won't succeed. So what do you do?"
"If you don't eat, you will starve. If you eat, you will be a glutton. So do you eat?"
"If eternalism, problem. If nihilism, problem. So what do you do?'
This sort of "structure" of some sort sounds like "poetry" in the Zen Book I read. I put quotation marks because they're just my assumption of a "recurring theme" in Zen Books.
My question is, what were the Zen Masters trying to convey to the students/monks? Buddhists seem to interpret it as,"the middle way", but even that causes issues. Putting labels or conceptualizing of "the middle" is itself problematic.
So what do you do?
Is Joshu's "Mu" a key to answering the questions asked by Zen Masters?
Submitted March 02, 2023 at 10:03AM by justkhairul https://ift.tt/UY1elaA
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