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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"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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Posted by Paul Sunstone at 7:43 AM
Labels: Epistemology, Quotes, Zen
4 comments:
You should go ahead and stick it on your blog anyway, Kay. It's a good quote and deserves to have a wide audience.
Somewhat of a counterpoint to the porcine Descartes who says in a cartoon "I stink, therefore I am".
:-)
Good one!
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?
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