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To: alt.zen From: wis@~halcyon.com (Bill) Subject: Re: wild west Zen Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 17:48:44 GMT NOSPAM@~grail_work@ntsource.com wrote: @Taksheer writes: @"Who are you to condemn us for that? Are you the Zen Master here? ;-)" @Definitely not. @By the way, can someone give me a defintion of "shunyata"? "From the Buddhist perspective, the Human realm is not just about the false self, but is also about the possibility of trancendent insight into the true nature of self. It is here that the Buddhist concept of sunyata (emptiness) can be appreciated. The Buddhists assert that the more we grasp emptiness, the more we feel real - that the core, the incommunicado element, is really a place of fear of our own insubstantiality. This is why we defend it so fiercely, why we do not want to be discovered, and why we feel so vulnerable as we approach our most personal and private feelings of ourselves. In approaching that privacy without fear, the Buddhist practices make possible a sense of genuine liberation rather than permanent isolation." - Mark Epstein, M.D. "Thoughts without a thinker" @Excuse my ignorance, I have lots.. @Kathy @-- @"sa vidya ya vimuktaye" -- "that which liberates is learning" @ (popular maxim in Sanskrit) @(Note: To send email, delete the NOSPAM in address above)
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