11-11-2010, 12:00 AM
MS, some questions to ask you...
First, you are the only member I can recall who has expressed unhappiness with this forum's direction.
Hi Wei .
My first question to you is, Was this forum creation your idea?
No it was not my idea.
My
next question is, since I can see Zen is a study you are passionate
about and have experience in, why did you not be the moderator?
I dislike discussion about zen, people shift into being in their head about phenomena they experience or worth about something they read in a book... The internal dialogue runs and the cultivation of Mind is lost. Hench the way to enlightenment is lost.
As I told Wolf - I would be a bad moderator. I would be shout KWATZ at peoples post and delete all that I found rubbish.
Since
I am the moderator now I can only look at this sub-forum from the
perspective of a learner. What is Zen? Is it anything at all? Once it
becomes something then is it Zen any longer? If so, why have a forum on
it if we can't make a nothing something? The forum would only reveal
what its not. Maybe we can just rename it to the not-Zen forum.
Yes I get the point, but for me Zen is a way of practice. Wax on Wax of. Wax on Wax of. Not much to talk about.
Of course there are question that could arise in the course of practice and I would be delighted to help to answer those.
I do read books on zen to get a better understanding and become inspired about how to practice and live zen in my daily doings and interactions.
Unfortunately a forum can hardly be used for anything but talk. In zen community I belong to we have a forum too, but there is hardly anybody that post there, not even asks the Roshi (zen master) questions...
What I find the problem about this forum is that people are not serious in to practicing zen.
There are people who are in the field playing the game and then there is those who watch and talk.
Wei please let me know if there is some question I could be of help to answer, as I don't read the post here.
HAHA )))) I saw my name on the front page, so that got me here.
Gassho.
First, you are the only member I can recall who has expressed unhappiness with this forum's direction.
Hi Wei .
My first question to you is, Was this forum creation your idea?
No it was not my idea.
My
next question is, since I can see Zen is a study you are passionate
about and have experience in, why did you not be the moderator?
I dislike discussion about zen, people shift into being in their head about phenomena they experience or worth about something they read in a book... The internal dialogue runs and the cultivation of Mind is lost. Hench the way to enlightenment is lost.
As I told Wolf - I would be a bad moderator. I would be shout KWATZ at peoples post and delete all that I found rubbish.
Since
I am the moderator now I can only look at this sub-forum from the
perspective of a learner. What is Zen? Is it anything at all? Once it
becomes something then is it Zen any longer? If so, why have a forum on
it if we can't make a nothing something? The forum would only reveal
what its not. Maybe we can just rename it to the not-Zen forum.
Yes I get the point, but for me Zen is a way of practice. Wax on Wax of. Wax on Wax of. Not much to talk about.
Of course there are question that could arise in the course of practice and I would be delighted to help to answer those.
I do read books on zen to get a better understanding and become inspired about how to practice and live zen in my daily doings and interactions.
Unfortunately a forum can hardly be used for anything but talk. In zen community I belong to we have a forum too, but there is hardly anybody that post there, not even asks the Roshi (zen master) questions...
What I find the problem about this forum is that people are not serious in to practicing zen.
There are people who are in the field playing the game and then there is those who watch and talk.
Wei please let me know if there is some question I could be of help to answer, as I don't read the post here.
HAHA )))) I saw my name on the front page, so that got me here.
Gassho.