From 1931 to 1945, Master Xu Yun witnessed the barbaric behaviour of invading Japanese troops in China, and he associated this barbarism with Japan’s abandonment of the Vinaya Discipline.
Tag: Early Buddhism
Alan Watts (and His ‘Distorted’ Zen Agenda) – Examines the Apparent ‘Entwinement’ of ‘Consciousness and Matter’
Alan Watts, I suspect, is mixing Western notions of Japanese Zen with modern, Western concepts of science, and he does this very well, but the point he is missing is that from the perspective of Chinese Ch’an, there is a stage of development he does not know about and therefore is missing in his analysis.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 