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To: alt.zen,alt.philosophy.zen From: nedludd@ix.netcom.com(Ned Ludd) Subject: Re: Is Zen Understanding Like Judgment? Date: 1 Mar 1998 02:36:06 GMT In <34febe38.10019921@news.mindspring.com> kmccor@mindspring.com (karen) writes: Michael: >> "Dutchananda, once pointed out that "marga" (the way, path, in >> Sanskrit) is not a regular old trail or street, but is a word >> that originally meant the hunter's path. The course is unknown >> ahead of time to the hunter, who must sniff and look for signs >> and watch and wait." >> --Thank You and OK, An American Zen Failure in Japan, David Chadwick >> P. 110 Karen: > Aha, so I *have* read it after all. > "Gary Snyder, a teacher of Buddhist hunters who prowls the Sierra > Nevadas in California, has suggested that hunting is one of the > experiential origins of meditation." > -- Thank You and OK, An American Zen Failure in Japan, David Chadwick > P. 109 > Ah, snipers and assassins. Yes, an apt analogy for meditation! I guess the great sense is not difficult, only not well chosen and not selected. Ned
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