Advantages: Excellent source of instruction, inspiration and encouragement Disadvantages: Zen is not for everyone.
...have practised Zen for about the last 25 years and to begin this review I will take the heading from my Zen blog…
Zen is certainly not for everyone. It's rewards are hard, if not possible to define with words, yet words are all we have to communicate on the internet. Zen communicates through experiential practices. In his excellent book The Three Pillars of Zen (which is, in my opinion, indispensable for someone starting out in Zen), the late Roshi ... ...its own true nature, or the nature of the universe." He goes on to say... "zazen is like a silent missile to penetrate the barriers of the five senses and the discursive intellect". Penetrate the barriers of the five senses and discursive intellect? It that something that I wanted or was it even wise to pursue? From my point of view, I would say, 'yes, it is both wanted and wise', but many years ago the activity of penetrating barriers of my intellect ...
derek-j-a 30.07.2005
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