CLTR 1120 Quiz: Introduction to Language Study Guide #2

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Culture
• Course: CLTR 1120
• Professor: Holbrook C.Robinson

Document Summary

Zen is one of the products of the chinese mind after its contact with indian thought, which was introduced through buddhist teachings. Compared with indians, chinese people are not as philosophically minded. Satori (japanese word for enlightenment); satori hides itself in our daily activities: eating, drinking, daily business. Zen has 2 general ways: verbal and actional. Humans cannot live without communication; experience and expression are one; verbalism is the most concrete experience. To cage there is no such thing as silence. Music is a succession of sounds and the composer the organizer of sounds .