Welcome to ZenHsin. Hope you will find what you are looking for.
I made this website out of admiration
of Zen, which in my opinion is unique and universal at the
same time. Zen is timeless, way beyond the limitations of
Western philosophy which has given up the goal of reaching
the ultimate "truth".
1500 years ago Mahayana philosophers came to the same
conclusion as modern phenomenology and physics (and earlier
Kant) have arrived at today, namely that our subjective and
culturally conditioned language is THE problem, when it
comes to grasping objectivity. Our minds are too encaged by
concepts and causa to embrace "a quantum-like reality".
Reality is not a dead controllable machine, it is
spontaneous actuality. Reality seems to be closer to art
than to science. (quite liberating for the mind)
Zen does not divide the world into subjectivity and
objectivity, such entities are reifications, that is
non-existent abstractions. Instead Zen unites this dual
thinking into one concrete living completeness by means of
the most stunning, iconoclastic insights and teachings aimed
at tearing down the dominating frozen concepts. In other
words, Zen is bringing people back to life and life back to
people. It is a healing process. Forget "the truth", since
truth does not exist, It's just a word but dont forget:
A bird flies, trees are blooming, fish are swimming, so why
cling to words?
The image of the bird is in the public domain
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Loquats and Mountain Bird, Chinese painting, album leaf, colors on silk, 28.9 x 29 cm.
Source
http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/painting/4courbf.htm, Fu Sinian, ed., Zhongguo meishu quanji, huihua bian 4: Liang Song huihua, xia (Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 1988), pl. 96, p. 131. Collection of the National Palace Museum, Beijing.
Date
Chinese Southern Song Dynasty (1127Ω1279)
Author
Anonymous
The image of the Buddhist temple is taken by me in the Rokko San Mountains Kobe, Japan
