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Ligne n°12 : ... SIGN IN- Ligne n°13 : Off-beat Zen | Aeon
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Ligne n°82 : ... through Watts and his writing, I was exposed directly to the ideas of- Ligne n°83 : Zen Buddhism. I was suspicious at first, perceiving Zen Buddhism to be
- Ligne n°83 : Zen Buddhism. I was suspicious at first, perceiving Zen Buddhism to be
Ligne n°84 : a religion rather than a philosophy. I wasn’t interested in the Four ...
Ligne n°92 : ... any more than a piece of music had an intrinsic ‘point’. Life was, in- Ligne n°93 : Zen parlance, yugen — a kind of elevated purposelessness.
Ligne n°98 : ... but is never anything other than a guess — a working fiction. This,- Ligne n°99 : too, is a typical Zen understanding — that life cannot be described,
Ligne n°100 : only experienced. Trying to see all of life is like trying to explore a ...
Ligne n°152 : ... At the age of 21, in 1936, he attended the World Congress of Faiths at- Ligne n°153 : the University of London. There, he heard the renowned Zen scholar DT
Ligne n°154 : Suzuki speak, and was introduced to him. Later that year, Watts ...
Ligne n°154 : ... Suzuki speak, and was introduced to him. Later that year, Watts- Ligne n°155 : published his first book The Spirit of Zen.
Ligne n°157 : ... That same year, he met the American heiress Eleanor Everett, whose- Ligne n°158 : mother was involved with a traditional Zen Buddhist circle in New York.
Ligne n°159 : He married Eleanor in 1938 and they moved to America, where he trained ...
Ligne n°178 : ... philosophical ideas to the West. In some ways, his interpretations were- Ligne n°179 : radical — for instance, he dismissed the core Zen idea of zaZen (which
- Ligne n°179 : radical — for instance, he dismissed the core Zen idea of zaZen (which
Ligne n°180 : meant spending hours seated in contemplative meditation) as ...
Ligne n°181 : ... unnecessary. ‘A cat sits until it is tired of sitting, then gets up,- Ligne n°182 : stretches, and walks away,’ was his forgiving interpretation of zaZen.
Ligne n°183 : Slightly less forgiving was his comment on Western Zen enthusiasts, ...
Ligne n°182 : ... stretches, and walks away,’ was his forgiving interpretation of zaZen.- Ligne n°183 : Slightly less forgiving was his comment on Western Zen enthusiasts,
Ligne n°184 : whom he mocked as ‘The uptight school … who seem to believe that Zen is ...
Ligne n°183 : ... Slightly less forgiving was his comment on Western Zen enthusiasts,- Ligne n°184 : whom he mocked as ‘The uptight school … who seem to believe that Zen is
Ligne n°185 : essentially sitting on your ass for interminable hours.’ It was a great ...
Ligne n°193 : ... made his ideas so fresh — he had no time for received wisdom, even from- Ligne n°194 : those who claimed to know Zen inside out.
Ligne n°196 : ... The idea of walking around with a metaphorical stick to whack yourself- Ligne n°197 : with is foreign to a Zen master
- Ligne n°199 : Many Zen ideas have become debased into ‘new age’ philosophy, basely
Ligne n°200 : transmuted into wishful thinking, quasi-religious mumbo jumbo and the ...
Ligne n°201 : ... narcissistic fantasies of the ‘me generation’. But before the beatniks- Ligne n°202 : and the hippies got hold of it, Zen philosophy, as described by Watts,
Ligne n°203 : was hard-edged, practical, logical and, in some ways, oddly English in ...
Ligne n°204 : ... tone, as it had deep strands of scepticism and humour. (You’ll never- Ligne n°205 : see Christian saints laughing. But most of the great sages of Zen have
Ligne n°206 : smiles on their faces, as does Buddha.) ...- Ligne n°208 : Zen and Taoism are more akin to psychotherapy than to religion, as
Ligne n°209 : Watts explained in his book Psychotherapy East and West (1961). They ...- Ligne n°216 : These kinds of snags, or double binds, according to Zen writings,
Ligne n°217 : produce inner tension, frustration, and neurosis — what Buddhism calls ...
Ligne n°217 : ... produce inner tension, frustration, and neurosis — what Buddhism calls- Ligne n°218 : dukkha. Watts saw his job, via Zen philosophy, to teach you to think
Ligne n°219 : clearly, so that you could see through conventional thinking to a place ...
Ligne n°224 : ... with a brilliant clarity, Watts had a difficult job on his hands —- Ligne n°225 : mainly because Zen and Taoism are so fundamentally counter-intuitive to
Ligne n°226 : the Western mind. Western philosophers and laymen find Eastern thinkers ...- Ligne n°231 : The riddles, or koans, that Zen thinkers speak in are intended to trip
Ligne n°232 : you up and make you realise how inadequate words — either spoken or ...
Ligne n°232 : ... you up and make you realise how inadequate words — either spoken or- Ligne n°233 : inner dialogue — are in making sense. Zen emphasises intuition and
Ligne n°234 : mushin, that is, an empty mind, over planning and thought. The ideal is ...
Ligne n°243 : ... whack yourself if you make a mistake, or get carried away by your- Ligne n°244 : emotions, is foreign to a Zen master.
- Ligne n°246 : Zen, after all, was used by the Samurai warriors, who had to strike
Ligne n°247 : immediately without reflection or die. Intuition, in a healthy soul, is ...- Ligne n°253 : Zen started as a reaction against the highly conventionalised and
Ligne n°254 : ritualised Japanese society from which it emerged. This must have ...- Ligne n°260 : The word Zen is a Japanese way of pronouncing chan, which is the
Ligne n°261 : Chinese way of pronouncing the Indian Sanskrit dhyana or sunya, meaning ...
Ligne n°261 : ... Chinese way of pronouncing the Indian Sanskrit dhyana or sunya, meaning- Ligne n°262 : emptiness or void. This is the basis of Zen itself — that all life and
Ligne n°263 : existence is based on a kind of dynamic emptiness (a view now supported ...- Ligne n°280 : The emphasis on the present moment is perhaps Zen’s most distinctive
Ligne n°281 : characteristic. In our Western relationship with time, in which we ...
Ligne n°284 : ... applied, the present moment has been compressed to a tiny sliver on the- Ligne n°285 : clock face between a vast past and an infinite future. Zen, more than
Ligne n°286 : anything else, is about reclaiming and expanding the present moment. ...- Ligne n°294 : For all Zen writers life is, as it was for Shakespeare, akin to a dream
Ligne n°295 : — transitory and insubstantial. There is no ‘rock of ages cleft for ...
Ligne n°298 : ... illusion. Everything passes and you must die. Don’t waste your time- Ligne n°299 : thinking otherwise. Neither Buddha nor his Zen followers had time for
Ligne n°300 : any notion of an afterlife. The doctrine of reincarnation can be more ...- Ligne n°305 : Another challenge for Western thinkers when struggling with Zen is
Ligne n°306 : that, unlike Western religion and philosophy, it has no particular ...
Ligne n°306 : ... that, unlike Western religion and philosophy, it has no particular- Ligne n°307 : moral code. The Noble Truths are not moral teachings. Zen (unlike
Ligne n°308 : Mahayana Buddhism with its ‘Eightfold Path’) makes no judgment about ...
Ligne n°320 : ... This can lead to some fairly shocking moral reasoning. When the- Ligne n°321 : American composer and Zen follower John Cage was asked, ‘Don’t you
Ligne n°322 : think there’s too much suffering in the world?’, he answered, ‘I think ...
Ligne n°323 : ... there’s just the right amount.’ This encapsulates, and yet somewhat- Ligne n°324 : satirises the Zen world view — that the dark and the light, the
Ligne n°325 : negative and the positive, the yin and the yang, are all necessary ...
Ligne n°328 : ... Behind this thinking is the idea that, for the accomplished follower of- Ligne n°329 : Zen, moralists are dangerous because they will destroy everything in
Ligne n°330 : pursuit of their vision of ‘the good’. Straightforward greed might ...
Ligne n°341 : ... After all, Hitler was an idealist, too. So Confucius — who was not,- Ligne n°342 : admittedly, part of the Zen tradition, though he influenced it — puts
Ligne n°343 : the greatest value not on absolute good, but on ‘human-heartedness’, or ...- Ligne n°348 : This lack of a clear moral code is perhaps why Zen is not a philosophy
Ligne n°349 : wholly appropriate for the young or immature mind. In the 1950s, Watts ...
Ligne n°349 : ... wholly appropriate for the young or immature mind. In the 1950s, Watts- Ligne n°350 : critiqued the Beatnik appropriation of Zen in his book Beat Zen, Square
- Ligne n°350 : critiqued the Beatnik appropriation of Zen in his book Beat Zen, Square
Ligne n°351 : Zen and Zen (1959). The apparent fatalism of Zen seemed to open the ...
Ligne n°350 : ... critiqued the Beatnik appropriation of Zen in his book Beat Zen, Square- Ligne n°351 : Zen and Zen (1959). The apparent fatalism of Zen seemed to open the
- Ligne n°351 : Zen and Zen (1959). The apparent fatalism of Zen seemed to open the
- Ligne n°351 : Zen and Zen (1959). The apparent fatalism of Zen seemed to open the
Ligne n°352 : door for an individual to do ‘whatever they like’. Watts thought the ...- Ligne n°357 : In fact, Zen isn’t fatalistic. Rather, it accepts something that
Ligne n°358 : Western philosophy finds hard to grasp — that two contradictory truths ...
Ligne n°362 : ... that two things can be one at the same time — light, for instance, acts- Ligne n°363 : as both a particle and a wave. The Zen masters say the same thing about
Ligne n°364 : human life. Perhaps you are doing ‘it’. Perhaps ‘it’ is doing you. ...- Ligne n°368 : While it is refreshing that Zen philosophy is supported in many ways by
Ligne n°369 : present scientific knowledge, it is also a critique of scientific ...- Ligne n°376 : Zen implies that this is like throwing the baby out with the bathwater
Ligne n°377 : — scientific thinking might be immensely useful, but it also does ...- Ligne n°395 : It is impossible, of course, to summarise Zen in a few thousand words.
Ligne n°396 : In fact it doesn’t ask to be summarised. The first principle of Zen, ...
Ligne n°395 : ... It is impossible, of course, to summarise Zen in a few thousand words.- Ligne n°396 : In fact it doesn’t ask to be summarised. The first principle of Zen,
Ligne n°397 : voiced by the philosopher Lao Tzu, is ‘Those who know don’t say, and ...
Ligne n°397 : ... voiced by the philosopher Lao Tzu, is ‘Those who know don’t say, and- Ligne n°398 : those who say don’t know.’ Zen is not proselytising, quite the reverse.
Ligne n°399 : It asks you to come to it, in supplication, and to tease it out. ...
Ligne n°399 : ... It asks you to come to it, in supplication, and to tease it out.- Ligne n°400 : Another Zen saying is, ‘He who seeks to persuade does not convince.’
- Ligne n°402 : But it convinced me. After spending nearly two years studying Zen,
Ligne n°403 : Taoism and the works of Alan Watts, I think I genuinely achieved a sort ...
Ligne n°409 : ... I don’t know how long the experience lasted. Perhaps as long as a year,- Ligne n°410 : perhaps even longer. All that time, Watts and the Zen idea were there
Ligne n°411 : in my head, informing my thoughts and actions. The background noise, ...
Ligne n°445 : ... the path again, then I will stay on it — until I lose it. And, as the- Ligne n°446 : Zen saying instructs, if I see the Buddha, I will kill him. Because the
Ligne n°447 : moment you start thinking of yourself as ‘enlightened’, you are not. ...