Originally Posted by
AlanLa
Not only did I reduce zazen to a simple statement, with a prompt from Rich I reduced it to a phrase: "zen happy hour." Since I am on such a reductionist roll, let me reduce Jundo's looong post responding to my original question of regarding to the fairness of my statement to this: "Yes, but." :p
Seriously, reductionism has it's place. We find it useful, especially when we get so burdened down with words, to break it down to as few essential words as we can. It can, and does, bring new understanding to do this. But, as Jundo points out, it also has its pitfalls. We definitely lose something along the reductionist way.