So ... What is Zen?
We come to the last pages of this helpful book. Thank you, Norman Fischer and Susan Moon!
A few questions are addressed. What are you feelings on all these and the whole book?
-Are we selfish to practice when we could be out saving the world?
-Do we need to make our Buddhist communities more diverse? How best to do that?
-Do our Bodhisattva Vows "To save all sentient beings, though beings numberless" mean anything to you? How do you take that?
-What about good and bad in a non-dualistic practice? Do you get the point that Rev. Norman is trying to make?
Thank you for reading along all these months.
From next time: We will return for some more Koans from the Book of Equanimity, and Rev. Shishin Wick's wonderful commentary. We will start from Koan 81 - Gensha Comes to the Province (portions available online)
After that, in a few weeks, we will turn to Shohaku Okumura's Realizing Genjo Koan,
Gassho, Jundo
STLah
We come to the last pages of this helpful book. Thank you, Norman Fischer and Susan Moon!
A few questions are addressed. What are you feelings on all these and the whole book?
-Are we selfish to practice when we could be out saving the world?
-Do we need to make our Buddhist communities more diverse? How best to do that?
-Do our Bodhisattva Vows "To save all sentient beings, though beings numberless" mean anything to you? How do you take that?
-What about good and bad in a non-dualistic practice? Do you get the point that Rev. Norman is trying to make?
Thank you for reading along all these months.
From next time: We will return for some more Koans from the Book of Equanimity, and Rev. Shishin Wick's wonderful commentary. We will start from Koan 81 - Gensha Comes to the Province (portions available online)
After that, in a few weeks, we will turn to Shohaku Okumura's Realizing Genjo Koan,
Gassho, Jundo
STLah
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