2003-12-12 - 9:55 p.m.

.enthymeme on popagandhi.com
"That renders any interpretive fudging moot."
                             lovely :]


.How to impress your Zen Master
http://www.webwerkstatt.de/bodhid.htm
"The Korean master Seung Sahn talks of three kinds of
enlightenment answers. For example, to the question,
`What is this?' of an apple.
To answer `an apple' can mean you are caught by name; 
To say `not an apple' may mean you're attached to
emptiness. 
If you hit the floor or shout `Katsu_[?]' you throw away
all names and no-names, it is presenting Emptiness. It is
called "the first enlightenment". 
Next comes "original enlightenment", which is to answer,
"the sky is blue, the grass is green, the wall is white,
the apple is red." It is "like this" answer, and means
that things are as they are; it is "three times three
equals nine. 
The third is "Final enlightenment": you take the apple
and have a bite of it. This is "just like this" answer."

                             well now you know.
  
  Infact, it seems whatever your Zen Master asks you
  you should just do something random or unexpected
  thereby 'sublating the "evil" spirit of the context'



So think outside the box, and eat the apple.









Heijo shin ze do 

(Everyday mind is the Way)












.Zen contd. Inappropriateness of belief?

From somewhere on fusionanomaly.net
That place is a maze, I dont know who wrote it but I like 

Most academic scientists have not 
emotional-territorial phase: most of their arguments are
based on the internal linkperceived need (like alpha male
primates) to stake out and defend intellectual "turf" and
maintain that in various "turf wars." Few have activated
the circuits beyond the dextero-symbolic, which views the
world in terms of internal linkpuzzle-solving and
piece-assembling.  But those who may have engaged their
 circuits begin to realize that it
the world as a Zen riddle or 
the qualities of subtlety, irony,
ambiguity, and unexpectedness that make the universe so
precious. Those who have made it to this stage know
the inappropriateness of belief (such as Charles Fort: "I
accept no facts, concepts, or theories, as I have no
truck with something so slippery as the products of
minds") and the necessity of communicating this 
understanding to others.


'Unless you believe, you will not understand.'
Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD), De Libero Arbitrio

hmmm...


 
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