Serendipitous find. Some Pynchon words, tropes....

jochen stremmel jstremmel at gmail.com
Fri Jul 19 03:41:56 CDT 2013


1st sentence of Zen Mind: "In the beginner's mind there are many
possibilities, but in the expert's there are few."

1st story in Zen Flesh, Zen Bones:
A Cup of Tea
Nan-in, a Japanese Master during the Meiji era, received a university
professor who came to require about Zen.
Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor's cup full and then kept on
pouring.
The professor watched the overflow until he no longer could restrain
himself. "It is overfull. No more will go in!"
"Like this cup," Nan-in said, "you are full of your own opinions and
speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup."




2013/7/19 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>

> Yes.  Western Bhuddism's founders should be thanked for their bringing
> this practice to our world.
> Suzuki's "beginners mind" teaching is an Internet favorite.
> "Suffer the Children," as JC said.
>
> It is about the great value of a new passion, a quest for truth, reality.
>
> And an implicitl warning against hardness, sclerosis.  An old mind.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Thursday, July 18, 2013, Markekohut wrote:
>
>> In an anthology, there was a paragraph from Alan Watts in which he
>> characterized the year he met and got to know the great Zen Buddhist, D.T.
>> Suzuki, as his " year of grace"....describing Suzuki's Seemingly simple
>> character, his spontaneously intelligent presence, Watts said,
>> " He uses gravity as a sailor uses the wind."
>>
>> Nice.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>
>
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