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  • September 24, 2024 at 7:55 pm #438355
    shinnen
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    Hi again,

    Yes, it took me some time to find a ‘free’ version.

    I’m familiar with the zen ‘slap’, as you call it. When I first became interested in buddhism I went

    to a zen temple, where the sensei would randomly slap us with a stick. You never knew when you were

    going to get it. For a beginning westerner zen was a little hard to digest. However, since then I’ve come to see it differently.

    …… john

    September 25, 2024 at 8:38 am #438368
    Peter
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    I prefer the metaphorical ‘slap’ of a kaon and paradox too the physical one 🙂
    I read to many personal accounts where the physical  ‘slaps’ intention was lost, a case where a method was confused with the destination.

    The ‘slap’ is meant, I think, to jolt the mind out of its own created traps. Mind creating the problem of duality then trying to use Mind to ‘fix’ it.  as Watts put it “You can’t lift yourself up by your own bootstraps. It won’t work! It won’t happen! “

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