So, let me say this ...
I think Brad is a vibrant, gifted teacher (
I sometimes compare him to one of those firey Tibetan "Dharma Protecting" dieties who turn their anger and wrath and lighting toward fighting ignorance.) who tries to find his own voice to speak the Dharma in modern terms, and who gets a lot of new butts on Zafus ... yet who sometimes says too much, occasionally ill chosen or going to extremes.
I think Genpo is a vibrant, gifted teacher who tries to find his own voice to speak the Dharma in modern terms, and who gets a lot of new butts on Zafus ... yet who sometimes says too much, occasionally ill chosen or going to extremes. (
For the life of me, I do not know what that talk was about with Trungpa grabbing his crotch and turning his Yang into a little girl!) :shock: {
note from Jundo: referring to a strange story that Genpo told in a video a Makyo experience he had}
I think Nishijima Roshi is a vibrant (for a 90 year old guy), gifted teacher, who tries to find his own voice to speak the Dharma in modern terms, and who gets a lot of new butts on Zafus ... yet who sometimes says too much, occasionally ill chosen or going to extremes. (
He has introduced some brilliant, original perspectives on understanding Dogen ... he was one of the first teachers to say that there are physiological/neurological aspects to Zazen ... and he gets a bit carried away with both sometimes, but heck, he's old. Like the rest of us, he is just trying to express in words and ideas some things hard to express in words and ideas, nailing jello to the wall)
I think Jundo Cohen is a (not-so-)vibrant, (sometimes-)gifted teacher who tries to find his own (verbose) voice to speak the Dharma in modern terms, and who gets a lot of new butts on Zafus ... yet who sometimes says too much, occasionally ill chosen or going to extremes.
Heck, I think
Bodhidharma and
Eno, Hakuin, Rinzai and
Dogen ...
Maezumi and both
Suzukis and
Trungpa and
Seung Sahn and all the rest ... all the Ancestors, ancient and modern ... the Buddha too!! ... were each vibrant, gifted teachers who tried to find their own voice to speak the Dharma in terms of their times, and who got a lot of new butts on Zafus ... yet who sometimes said too much, occasionally ill chosen or going to extremes.
And that is more than I should have said on this topic ... in words probably too much, ill chosen and going to extremes.
Gassho, J