Post by Figgles on Oct 24, 2018 18:56:25 GMT
I pulled this particular quote from ST, as it aptly demonstrates why on one hand I see clarity in what ZD says, but in other ways feel he still has some seeing through to do.
AS I see it, existential questions resolve through seeing that they were misconceived in the first place, not through actual arrival at a pat, concrete answer.
The very questions of 'how/why/what' indicate that mind has gotten into the sauce and really, if clarity is what we're after, it just has no place there. To actually arrive at a pat answer then, can only mean that rather than transcending mind, we've engaged mind, pandered to it.
Transcendence of existential questions means seeing them as misconceived,not arriving at an answer that satisfies mind.
Zd comes off to me as having a very 'satisfied mind.'
Zendancer: Perhaps so, but Zen focuses very strongly on the resolution of all double binds as well as any and all existential questions. That approach is quite effective, and each specific resolution involves a specific realization. Needless to say, perhaps, Zen has very little interest in anything abstract. It's focus is extremely down to earth, yet beyond mind (if by "mind" we mean the intellect. No fault, no blame; just a different way of life for some.
Read more: spiritualteachers.proboards.com/thread/4132/world?page=8331#ixzz5UsLx3jB0
Read more: spiritualteachers.proboards.com/thread/4132/world?page=8331#ixzz5UsLx3jB0
AS I see it, existential questions resolve through seeing that they were misconceived in the first place, not through actual arrival at a pat, concrete answer.
The very questions of 'how/why/what' indicate that mind has gotten into the sauce and really, if clarity is what we're after, it just has no place there. To actually arrive at a pat answer then, can only mean that rather than transcending mind, we've engaged mind, pandered to it.
Transcendence of existential questions means seeing them as misconceived,not arriving at an answer that satisfies mind.
Zd comes off to me as having a very 'satisfied mind.'