The language is accessible so it's not an impediment for grasping most of the concepts (which doesn't necessarily mean that anyone without an iota of knowledge about Zen will) but the exhaustive analysis might be too much, even with the beautiful poems Watts included to illustrate each idea - a break from this scholarly study. Only when you have no thing in your mind and no mind in things are you vacant and spiritual, empty and marvelous.Ī detailed book that shows a thorough understanding of Zen. But this is the way it always was, and in the next moment we find ourselves as free to act, speak, and think as ever, yet in a strange and miraculous new world from which “self” and “other,” “mind” and “things” have vanished. For a moment we are paralyzed, because it seems that we have no basis for action, no ground under foot from which to take a jump. In terms of immediate perception, when we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.
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