ewk is clearly upset by faure so i have done a little digging to see why and yes it is disconcerting even to me
what i find a bit freaky being familiar with the blue cliff record and mumonkan is the degree to which one can recognise quite conventional theological ch'an doctrines and tropes presented as dialogue
the dialogues are obviously made up
its disturbing, chan/zen is a convention religion with its own theology, but like other conventional religions has a mystical subset and these subsets are their saving graces
the record of joshu which is not theological at all is the best representation of this mystical branch, indeed zen's debt to him is immense, the center of a revolving circle around his authenticity
so many clueless bullshit teachers though
anyway ewk's view of zen as an abstract pseudo-philosophical nihilism is away with the fairies with no historical let alone philosophical validity at all
Submitted December 14, 2018 at 02:24PM by zaddar1 https://ift.tt/2Lg6mZq
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