RE: There is no "I" in "You"
May 19, 2016 at 4:57 pm
(This post was last modified: May 19, 2016 at 5:00 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 19, 2016 at 4:51 pm)quip Wrote: You tell me as that's precisely the goal of the koan. Give quiet contemplation a chance.-and again, you make me doubt that you spent your time learning buddhism wisely...since you didn't learn it at all. A koan is a prelude to magic. The goal of a koan is not to provide a standard measure, a means by which claims can be considered when/if reason fails...it's meant to persuade the audience that reason is inadequate. No amount of quiet contemplation is going to lead me to anything which I didn;t already know. I need interaction, I need input, I need standards of consideration.
Quote:Some answers cannot be given in some pre-packaged, OTC, easily digestible way...as we're wont to feel entitled to.
-and apparently, some answers cant be given at all, or at least some people possess none.........
Quote:Simply offering an alternative perspective....take it or leave it.What alternative perspective? You've been awfully cagey......I don;t know that anyone here has any clue as to what perspective you're offering. You could clear that up...or you could respond, again, as you did here.
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