Friday, 27 May 2022

/r/Zen Newcomer Zen Warnings!

This is a sneak peek of the format of a longer thing about Wumens 10-ish warnings and how the Zen conversation surrounding them is one that shuts posers right up. With quotes!!

I might get halfway done with before 2023 rolls around.

Maybe.

In no particular order…

  1. Affirming the centrality of, standing, walking, lying down in meditative-contemplation is to misunderstand the essential point.

  2. Claiming that your true nature is a matter to be uncovered by mystic hallucinogens is just gouging your eyes out to remove a cataract.

  3. Creating a doctrine to understand Mind is akin to setting up smokescreens, and streaking a mirror.

  4. If you can’t have a conversation about your precepts, promises, and practice you’re just tied up in hedonism.

  5. When there isn’t a question, there isn’t an answer. If you can’t ask & answer your condition is that of a stone Buddha.

Ask away!



Submitted May 27, 2022 at 04:34PM by ThatKir https://ift.tt/H4o5sRd

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