Monday, April 2, 2012

Nansen's No Way

The Reading:

THE CASE


Nansen said, "The mind is not the Buddha, knowledge is not the Way."
Case 34, Mumonkan, R.H. Blyth

Discussion:

The religions all have sacred texts, and sacred knowledge to be gleaned from them.  What does Zen have?  Nothing.  What is a Zen Master the master of?

As Confucius remarked, "What you know, you know.  What you don't know, you don't know."  How close to the Way!

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