tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11186098.post7822142314885060017..comments2023-10-22T22:09:30.735-05:00Comments on A Love for Art: The Mumonkan (The Gateless Gate) - CASE 1. JOSHU'S DOGD.Macrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16015231384680673802noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11186098.post-16087731340073676402011-06-20T00:03:50.754-05:002011-06-20T00:03:50.754-05:00have you barked...howled...b...itch...at all?have you barked...howled...b...itch...at all?khora jonesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11186098.post-78158762695403316462009-05-25T10:35:56.060-05:002009-05-25T10:35:56.060-05:00It need not be discussed, I agree.
Still, when I ...It need not be discussed, I agree.<br /><br />Still, when I read through a translation of this book a few years ago, it really hit me in a way that no other book (and I've read a lot of zen and semi-related stuff) every has before or since. Putting my mind to the questions that were posed, whether they made any "sense" or not, or had any point at all, made me see things in a way that I somehow hadn't before.D. Sky Onossonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03878129270916134167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11186098.post-65700366637133767662009-05-25T10:27:27.228-05:002009-05-25T10:27:27.228-05:00OK, an unquestionable riddle!
Whatever the case, ...OK, an unquestionable riddle!<br /><br />Whatever the case, using language can't get at it either. Can feel? Likely not as that is a sense.<br /><br />Really, it can't be discussed, so ce tout.c-toutnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11186098.post-76524529020808585952009-05-25T10:15:00.562-05:002009-05-25T10:15:00.562-05:00I don't think so... there's more subtlety to it th...I don't think so... there's more subtlety to it than that.<br /><br />If it is unanswerable, then we can still ask: what is it that makes it impossible to answer? Is there a problem in our understanding, our logic, or our preconceptions?<br /><br />The exhortations to kill the Buddha and the Zen Master - I think those are giant clues as to what this is all about.D. Sky Onossonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03878129270916134167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11186098.post-27729835409133219862009-05-25T09:07:15.944-05:002009-05-25T09:07:15.944-05:00Riddles, all riddles, and that's the point, at it'...Riddles, all riddles, and that's the point, at it's very core, it's an unanswerable riddle, and the only way to answer such a riddle is to disregard it.c-riddlednoreply@blogger.com