Another whacky Western Zen master

Just not long ago another whacky Western Zen master said, in so many words, which obscurity is evanescent only like samsara as well as which parinirvana is death. Wow!

For me this is not too surprising. Looking over Western Zen literature, popular Western Zennists, including teachers, seem focussed on trying to spin Buddhism into something which it is not, something, we hasten to add, which any materialist would dearly love. In addition, many Western Zen masters have been not really knowledgeable about what a Buddha essentially taught as well as was pointing to. Most is seems have been only familiar with a little Heart Sutra as well as a Diamond Sutraokay, maybe a Vimimalakirti Sutra.

Maybe this Zen master can rehabilitate himself, as well as acquire a little good karma, by celebration of a mass what we have proved below (I even typed it out for him!). It is from D.T. Suzuki who, by a way, ranks in my book as a good academician as well as Zennist (I think we like him since he abandoned DogenWestern Zens naked king).

"When Nagarjuna says in his Madhyamika Shastra that: 'That is called Nirvana which is not wanting, is not acquired, is not intermittent, is not non-intermittent, is not theme to destruction, as well as is not created;' he evidently speaks of Nirvana as a equivalent term of Dharmakaya, which is, in a first clarity as on top of described. Chandra Kirti, therefore, righteously comments which Nirvana is sarva-kalpan-ksaya-rupam, i.e., which which transcends all a forms of determination. Nirvana is an absolute, it is on top of a relativity of life (bhva) as well as non-existence (abhva). Nirvana is sometimes spoken of as possessing four attributes; (1) almighty (nitya), (2) blithe (sukha) (3) self-acting (tman), as well as (4) pristine (shushi). Judging from these qualities to illustrate ascribed to Nirvana as a necessary features, Nirvana is here again identified with a highest reality of Buddhism, which is, with a Dharmakaya. It is almighty since it is immater! ial; it is blithe since it is on top of all sufferings; it is self-acting since it knows no compulsion; it is pristine since it is not defiled by passion as well as error" (Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Outline of Mahayana Buddhism, p. 347348).

I have to admit this is good stuff. How a heck this good Western Zen master comes away believing which obscurity is evanescent is over me. we would have to splash a half bottle of Jack Daniels whiskey to follow his reasoning, as well as which goes with many Western teachers. Are these people crazy?

This additionally might be of help. It is from The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment (Kihwas comment).

The conflicting of shift is called suchness. True suchness is a training which dispels mendacity as well as dissolves distinctions. The conflicting of molestation is called bodhi; a conflicting of samsara is called nirvana. Bodhi as well as obscurity have been a dharmas following of transforming molestation as well as separating from samsara (Muller, The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment, p. 76).


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