c/alan-watts
The largest collection of talks by Alan Watts — the British-American philosopher who made Eastern wisdom accessible through witty and profound teachings.
…who wrote the shinjinme, which is the most marvelous little summary of Buddhism in verse, and so on till they came to Eno, the sixth patriarch. You know perhaps more familiarly his Chinese name, Huineng. The problem, you know with what you read in books…
…and this is the Mandarin way. In Mandarin Huineng becomes wailang. In Cantonese almost say hui Wei, Huineng, Wailang, and in Japanese Eno. Totally confusing, but it's all the same man and he died in 715 AD. He's the real founder of Chinese Zen, the…
…the earliest form of the text done by wingsit Chan, published by st John's University in New York. It's a Catholic University, but Eno really fused Zen with the Chinese way of doing things and he emphasized very thoroughly: do not think you are going to…
…lose your temper or get angry or feel annoyed or depressed, those people haven't got the right idea at all. If that's your ideal, said Eno you might just as be a block of wood or a piece of stone. What he wanted you to understand is that your real…
…method in Zen study Soto people don't, at least not in the same way. But this period between the death of the sixth patriarch Eno and about the year 1000 is the golden age of Zen. These were the really formative years and after that Zen began to…
…sosan, who wrote the shinjinme, which is the most marvelous little of Buddhism in verse, and so on till they came to Eno, the sixth patriarch. You know perhaps more familiarly his Chinese name, Huineng. The problem, you know with what you read in books…
…characters and this is the Mandarin way. In Mandarin Huineng becomes wailang. In Cantonese almost say hui Wei, Huineng, Wailang, and in Japanese Eno. Totally confusing but it's all the same man and he died in 715 a d and he's the real founder of Chinese…
…the earliest form of the text done by wingsit Chan, published by st John's University in New York. It's a Catholic University, but Eno really fused Zen with the Chinese way of doing things and he emphasized very thoroughly: do not think you are going to…
…lose your temper or get angry or feel annoyed or depressed, those people haven't got the right idea at all. If that's your ideal, said Eno you might just as well be a block of wood or a piece of stone. What he wanted you to understand is that your…
…method in Zen studies, Soto people don't, at least not in the same way. But this period between the death of the sixth patriarch, Eno and about the year 1000 is the golden age of Zen. These were the really formative years and after that Zen began to…