taking the post-modernist view of language as a vehicle for obtaining power and permissive of hypocrisy and internal contradictions in the pursuit of a personal power goal
a lot of the zen record dialogues are simply about "post-modernist monks" arguing with teachers who use language as a vehicle to pursue knowledge of the true state of affairs and ne'er the twain shall meet
a corollary of this is "post-modern zen" regardless of whenever it was, in the tang and song dynasties or today, is its adherents are forced to always revert to scripture for claims of authenticity since, by taking the post-modern linguistic approach which is a naked and fanciful grab at some misperception of power without regard to semantic coherence, they are clearly inadequate when put up against some-one with a real understanding of the matter
since making my criticisms of "scripturalism" on r|zen i have seen a few OP's stepping out more "into their own knowledge" and the results have been worse than pathetic, "shameful" really
so basically r|zen is consigned/doomed to revolve in post-modern scriptural circles forever, the "not too bright" chasing whatever hubric illusion of power they envisage
real life zen is very post-modern too because it has a strongly enforced "power hierarchy" and needs to sustain that
i think you can generalise from that to all religion
there is nothing new about post-modern, its a personal, social, societal and "state management" strategy system
Submitted November 05, 2018 at 05:51AM by zaddar1 https://ift.tt/2OsgA9b
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