Friday, August 17, 2007

The Aim of Zen

"The aim of Zen is to focus attention on reality itself, instead of our intellectual and emotional reactions to reality...."

- Alan Watts


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4 comments:

Paul Sunstone said...

You should go ahead and stick it on your blog anyway, Kay. It's a good quote and deserves to have a wide audience.

Anonymous said...

Somewhat of a counterpoint to the porcine Descartes who says in a cartoon "I stink, therefore I am".
:-)

Anonymous said...

Good one!

Paul Sunstone said...

That's a wonderful intuitive and witty insight, Rambodoc. Descartes placed the foundations of modern Western philosophy squarely on our intellectual reactions to reality, didn't he?