RE: virus:Re: Buddhism and memetics

Richard Brodie (RBrodie@brodietech.com)
Tue, 11 Mar 1997 20:04:00 -0800


D.H.R. wrote:

>> In Zen training every concept is held up to
>>scrutiny, nothing is left uninvestigated,
>
>Does this include the concept of Zen itself?

There's a wonderful koan about the top student in the Zen monastery who
becomes a master known far and wide for his voluminous and insightful
writings on one of the sutras. One day he becomes enlightened and burns
his life's work. Zen, like Level 3, doesn't take itself seriously.

Richard Brodie RBrodie@brodietech.com +1.206.688.8600
CEO, Brodie Technology Group, Inc., Bellevue, WA USA
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