Originally Posted by
galen
Thank you Taigu! Good to see/hear from you as you seemingly appear from a darker period into the lighter.
It seems people like this Eric, and sometimes myself, feel the need to push on it, the it that seems rather fraudulent at times, and at times is, and needs the shake up. I cannot speak for him, but it is my way of learning through the exposure, or maybe bringing things more into light. Sometimes it serves well for all. The hard part is not letting this shakeup get overcome with emotion as that does not seem to be the Zen/Buddhist Way, and that may be the real test as you seem to insinuate here. There is nothing wrong with Eric's take it seems, its his, and for everyone getting all `up in arms' and worked up, he seemed to get his way and possibly did bring out the shallower side with everyone getting a little carried away. All of a sudden there were quite a few Zen experts. It seems he exposed dualism, his pushed buttons and no matter how or what people judged him buy, and of course I am not expert here, he did know a lot and on some levels he has spent some time in his preparation this type of dance. My guess is he probably is more of the atheist type, for whatever that is worth and quite intelligent. He backed down from no one and on his own, it seems he left when he felt he had exposed a group who think they are such Zenners. I feel people like him and Chet are a good thing, they teach in their own way and are quite harmless. But when they are attacked, and there is not winners or losers, they make their mark, good or what could be called bad. I try to read between the lines, there are a lot of levels going on and yes as you say, we can think to much. But to your point here, this same thinking to much or over dramatizing also possibly came from the teachers here too. He was our projection, we needed to look at our own shit, because on a lot of levels he is us, we are him caught in this dualistic ego game called life. Peace, brother Taigu, good to hear from you.
Gassho