Passing Through Barriers
Originally appeared February 2014
In the present time, people often think that having no intellectual knowledge is Zen, and so they don’t use scriptures or treatises. Instead, they say, “What is the need for scriptures and treatises in the special transmission outside doctrine?”
Like a good friend attempting to warn us of a hole we’re about to step into or a cliff we’re about to fall off of, Torei offers very practical advice for us. Who hasn’t known someone who disdains the study of sutras as examples of dogma and practiced their own version of Ma-tsu’s “everyday Mind is the Way?”
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