So ... What is Zen?
We come to the last pages of this helpful book. Thank you, Norman Fischer and Susan Moon!
A few questions are addressed. What are you feelings on all these and the whole book?
-Are we selfish to practice when we could be out saving the world?
-Do we need to make our Buddhist communities more diverse? How best to do that?
-Do our Bodhisattva Vows "To save all sentient beings, though beings numberless" mean anything to you? How do you take that?
-What about good and bad in a non-dualistic practice? Do you get the point that Rev. Norman is trying to make?
Thank you for reading along all these months.
From next time: We will return for some more Koans from the Book of Equanimity, and Rev. Shishin Wick's wonderful commentary. We will start from Koan 81 - Gensha Comes to the Province (portions available online)
https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=...ovince&f=false
After that, in a few weeks, we will turn to Shohaku Okumura's Realizing Genjo Koan,
https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=...page&q&f=false
Gassho, Jundo
STLah
