RELG 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: List Of The Den Cast Members, Budai, Zazen

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 253
• Professor: Victor Soﾍgen Hori

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01/23/2016 (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) What is the ox: 1 searching for the ox first stage of any religion practice: the quest (existancial question) Riding the ox in search of the ox. Because it is already a part of you: Original enlightenment thought: all sentient beings are originally enlightened. Zazen: 2 seeing a trace traces in words. But don"t mistake the finger for the moon . Finding traces of the ox is finding the roots of buddhism. A lot of readings but problem: of the moon. Intellectual ppl thing that understanding the words, they know the meaning. Zazen: 3 glimpsing the ox an experience of awakening. You have to get it outside texts. A lot of ppl think this is the last stage of buddhism and that once you arrive here you are done. But in fact it is the 3rd of 10.