Friday, 9 November 2018

"What is Zen" is not a deep or interesting question.

Zen is a school of Mahayana Buddhism. This isn't a synthetic proposition. I'm not saying anything meaningful except telling you what the word Zen literally means.

Students at ASU don't hypothesize about "What is ASU?" ASU is literally just the term used to denote the phenomenon that is that institution. Thus with Zen.

Zen isn't one thing, or 3 things. It's a conglomeration of literature, teachings, tradition, and culture, sometimes apparently contradictory. It's something to dive into and explore, not a single insight or tool.

In many fields, reduction is a means to identify the essence of something. Not with Zen. Zen is not an elegant theory of everything. Zen is a landscape of nuance, as Zen is about the mind, the most nuanced thing we know.



Submitted November 09, 2018 at 04:10PM by Leif- https://ift.tt/2Pl8x3c

No comments:

Post a Comment

Blog Archive