Pale Green Pants With Anatta Inside
Parental guidance suggested.
https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2017/04/pale-green-pants-with-anatta-inside.html
#anatta, #book, #Buddhism, #DrSeuss, #GatelessGate, #Halloween, #Zen
Pale Green Pants With Anatta Inside
Parental guidance suggested.
https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2017/04/pale-green-pants-with-anatta-inside.html
#anatta, #book, #Buddhism, #DrSeuss, #GatelessGate, #Halloween, #Zen
I am putting Hyakujo's Fox on the back burner for a little while. I think I need to revisit some classics like Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamikakarika, the chapter on conditions.
This feels important for establishing a right view on the nature of causality at the turning word.
Or... it might prove just another rabbit hole 😅
#ZenBuddhism #KoanStudy #koans #GatelessGate #buddhism #mahayana
(I'd love to do this full time, when can we have universal basic income?)
Would it fundamentally change the #koan on Gutei's finger if instead of raising a finger, Gutei had said a mantra, or chanted the heart sutra, or even recitated the entire Canon?
Of course his one finger dharma sounds ridiculous, because of its form.
But maybe it should be equally ridiculous to think a dharma that has a form, any form, leads to enlightenment.
I thought I was converging on my writing of a commentary of the Fox #koan. Now I find myself opening spaces on lines I thought I had closed before.
In particular, the ritual.
The subject of the ritual doesn't make sense.
The function of the ritual doesn't make sense.
The benefit of the ritual doesn't make sense.
Let's do it anyway.
#ZenBuddhism #KoanStudy #Buddhism #FoxKoan #GatelessGate #SotoZen
But there are also comebacks. One I am fond of, for whenever the contemplation becomes too abstract and speculative, is given by an "added saying" of the case 8 of the #BookOfSerenity (equiv. to #GatelessGate case 2):
- Does an enlightened person fall under the law of cause and effect or not?
- "Just do good, don't ask about the road ahead."
I found this #zen quip terribly funny, and humbling.
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Amos Keppler
Apologetics Of Emptiness