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murt han felt f a the love of BuddhaYn<br />
Downplaying the historical of Zm Buddhism. Suruld rtrruu peMlul<br />
erpenaa and Molulity. Thus, Sumki wim:<br />
86<br />
PemmA crpriena, thacforr, is cnrything in Zen. NO ideu nn *tCUipibk to<br />
** h a w m b ~ o f ~ .... - TogeUlecI~nndmortdfleicnt<br />
undsrtnding of a thing, therefore, it mwt be aprimd prraully. Espcially<br />
when the thing is macmed with life itself, pMnal upriena is an abmlolure<br />
necessity. Withaut this exprience nothing dative to its profound working will<br />
be 2am-aMy and More efkimtly grsrpsd. lk foundation of dl -apt.<br />
s rlmplc, unrophtrucatd elpnase Zm plam the utmost cmphuu upn, thmr<br />
famdaaoncipnence, and 11 tr amund th13 that 2.m conrrmcu dl the verbal and<br />
-ml calfo old vhxh a found m IU Lleranrc Lmow ar (anncs' , --- Ieomh I ~ .-yu-lu:<br />
ch.). nough the &old sffords a man useful mao to mch inmoa<br />
dity, it is still an elaboration and artificiality. We lose is whole Ilgnifimce<br />
when it iri lab for a final reality. Tho naruh of the human understanding complr<br />
us not to plt too much mnfidena m the rupcnrmcNre. Mystification is far from<br />
being the obja of Zcn iuelf, but to #how rho have not mushed the cenml fact<br />
of life Zen inevrtzbly ap- as mystifying. Pen- thmugh Be conceptu.l<br />
ruperrrmcOlR and what is imagined ~o be a mystification will at once d i m ,<br />
and at the m e time there will be an enlightenment know a~ rm~. Zcn,<br />
therefom, mon rlmngly and persistently intiru on an inner Epirirual exprimer<br />
It dar na atech any inuininric impornee to be wxd sum or to their exesbv<br />
UX wi+e and Iramed. Pemnal cxoeriena a ~8omelv set aeainst ruthorih and<br />
u, v , -<br />
obasbve melatlan and u the most omcud methcd of attauune murrual<br />
D. T. Swul, An lmmdvcdoz m Zcn Buddhism Wa and Cornpmy. 1940:<br />
reprim Im&m Anow Bmlo, 1959). p.40. Swh neglst of the imparance of hirtory cm<br />
be rren in the Wditianal view of the Bvddha in the writings of the early Cyan md Zen<br />
Buddhist -tar. Ch'm (Z7x Chinere Tmq6mim qfBuddhin, p. I I: wiru:<br />
the Ch'an masters shwfEd to their followem that if they shovld w u n a the<br />
Buddhaandbodhisamnr,they~d!dthm, forthcBuddhwarrsidtobcjurt<br />
a barbarian devil and the Mhistfvar just n, many dung-herp molier.<br />
lbid., pp. 33-34.
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