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Friday, October 22, 2010

A minor debate: D T Suzuki on the Patriarchy of Zen

BODHIDHARMA'S SERMONS LAYS OUT THE FULL LAWS AND MIND ORDINANCES: RID YOURSELF OF ALL DEFILEMENTS, AND MENTAL DELUSIONS OR BELIEVE IN ANY DELUSIONS OF THE MIND THAT ATTACK THE BODY OR SPIRIT=THE MIND IS ONE, AND THERE IS NO BUDDHA BUT MIND.

IT SEEMS MR. DT SUZUKI CLAIMS THAT HUI-NENG  OF THE DOCTRINE OF "NO MIND" WAS ONTO-GENIC. MODERN SCIENCE HAS NOT YET CORROBORATED IN NEURO-COGNITIVE SCIENCE  \\ AS TO WHAT THE MIND IS, OTHER THAN A COMPLEX ORGAN, THAT MAY BE "LOCATED" IN THE COGNITIVE TRANSMITTERS OF THE BRAIN,  BUT DOES NOT INVOLVE WHAT WE CAN SAY IS "CONSCIOUSNESS"---HENCE,  I DISAGREE WITH SUZUKI.

IT MOST ESP. THAT THE BODHIDHARMA HAD TRANSMITTED  THIS DHARMIC TRANSMISSION OR NO MIND=BUDDHA. TO HUI-NENG IONS BEFORE THE BODDHIDHARMA CAME TO SHAOLIN.....

AS ALSO SAID BODHIDHARMA THE LEGENDARY FOUNDER OF KUNG FU YOGA OR COMBAT, HAVE FAITH IN YOUR MEDITATIVE PRACTICE.

----Cyprian Eustace Lee  w. Elizabeth A. Rile

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