Does it have an exact meaning?
2007-03-09 08:31:39 · 15 answers · asked by Barak 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Most Zen sayings mean exactly what they say. This is one of them.
2007-03-09 08:34:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Nothing in Zen has an "exact" meaning. If you can explain something exactly, it isn't Zen. Zen is an experiential faith, in which enlightenment doesn't lead to definable facts; in that sense, it's like quantum physics .. as soon as you can define it in words it loses its accuracy. Quantum physics can be explained mathematically, but when you try to put it into words the meaning almost disappears.
Zen is something that can't be explained to somebody; it has to be experienced. There isn't a textbook that explains Zen and you can't simply read a book and "get it".
Even the lessons in the Tao are quite like that. There may be specific interpretations in English, but the original language has many colored meanings such that any single English translation will be vague at best. The Tao though is much more concrete than Zen.
The best answer to that question might be "If you don't know already, nobody can tell you".
2007-03-09 08:40:30 · answer #2 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Listen To The Sky
2016-12-13 03:44:20 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
discomfort is an area of the human situation and it particularly is short in nature, while we are actually not, genuinely. In essence we are religious beings, trapped in a actual penitentiary this is the human situation. suffering (our reaction to discomfort) is attachment to the human situation. holiday the discomfort, be an observer, think on the subject of the reason: this physique and this concepts are actually not genuine, do no longer 'grow to be' the discomfort as that is going to pass. by technique of turning into the discomfort, whether actual, psychological, emotional, different, or a blend thereof, we "go through" as we lose sight of fact. This sounds so sufi additionally :) thank you for sharing. Salaam. :::additionally:: i think of classes of suffering are an significant area of the human situation, as inshaAllah we are made extra responsive to our state of separation. "do no longer talk of your suffering -- he's speaking. do no longer seem for Him everywhere -- he's calling for you. An ant's foot touches a leaf, He senses it; A pebble shifts in a stream, He knows it. If there's a working laptop or pc virus hidden deep in a rock, he will understand its physique, tinier than an atom, The sound of its compliment, its secret ecstasy -- All this He knows by technique of divine understanding. He has given the tiniest pc virus its food; He has opened to you the way of the Holy Ones." ----- Abû'l-Majd Majdûd b. Adam Sanâ'î
2016-09-30 11:01:10 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a zen koan. They're used as a focus in meditation. The point is to find an answer outside the confines of logic. They're are many possible meanings.
2007-03-09 08:35:52 · answer #5 · answered by hot carl sagan: ninja for hire 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Deirdre's answer is good but here's my two cents. We see the sky and it looks like a ceiling. But it isn't, you can't knock on it.
All of existence has this character to it. It looks like something's there but there isn't. All existence is gaseous and atmospheric.
2007-03-09 08:56:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's a koan and you're supposed to meditate on the answer and come to a conclusion yourself. When your teacher asks you for your answer, which there is no correct one answer, you give what you think it means and receive further instructions from said teacher.
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2007-03-09 08:55:37 · answer #7 · answered by vinslave 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Watch Tron Legacy...
2015-01-04 13:47:52 · answer #8 · answered by John 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It means there's something else to do other than listen to the sound of one hand clapping
2007-03-09 08:55:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
After suffering Khundalini Burnout I stoped knocking on the Sky and gave my life to Christ. All better now!
2007-03-09 08:37:15 · answer #10 · answered by Tribble Macher 6 · 1⤊ 7⤋