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This odd transcript of a conversation on The Hour of Judgment radio series is introduced by the show host with these words:
Please note: This text is not a direct transcript from the radio program. Neither Roselyn nor Greg have consented to our using such a direct transcript of their words here, so we have related the conversation in our own words to the best of our ability. Both Roselyn Stone and Greg Howard would like it to be made very clear that they do not in any way support our activities.
How does an individual know they are enlightened or wise? Can we ascertain our own wisdom for ourselves, or do we have to rely on an authorized teacher to do it? And if the latter is the case, then how did the teacher ascertain their own enlightenment? Did the Buddha have to rely on someone else to authorize him as wise? Here we go right to the heart of what is meant by being an individual. Can there truly exist an individual, a person who is an authority unto himself?
Daio Kokushi's words come to Bushy's mind:
Wishing to entice the blind, The Buddha has playfully let words escape his golden mouth; Heaven and earth are ever since filled with entangling briars.
Bush asked, "How would you like me to describe Dark Zen?"
" Call it 'Hard ass Zen' These people don't play psychological games and delve directly into the mystery of the spirit," replied The Zennist.
A site dedicated to the mystical side of Zen. We tend to promote a Ch'an/Dzogchin view a.k.a. early Mahayanist version of Buddhism that probably is more in line with what Asangha/vasubanzu taught.
David Bubna-Litic
On-line Conference on "Buddhism and Human Rights"
Sponsored by the Journal of Buddhist Ethics
Journal of Buddhist Ethics
This paper will explore the implications of Buddhism (Mahaayaana perspective) to Business practice, particularly the assumption behind independence versus interdependence or interbeing. The article will focus on how ethical assumptions are made in the genesis of strategy creation in business organisations, that is, how businesses make fundamental decisions about their activities. Issues relating to the "process" of strategy formulation (as opposed to the content) will also be explored.
Strategic decisions relate to a wide range of Human rights issues, such as,
intervention in the political process, the use of sweat-shop labour, abuse of
third-world environments, manufacture of materialist values and the marginalisation
of spiritual values. Many organizations enter into such practices on the basis
that they are serving their shareholder's best interests. This paper will question
this assumption deconstructing monolithic views of a) organisations b) agency
and c) assumptions about top management's locus of control.
Buddhist Ethics and Business
Strategy
A Critique of the Current State of American Zen
Article by Stuart Lachs evaluating the transmission of Zen insights to America
in the 20th century, and the consequences of the path this transmission took.
Coming
Down from the Zen Clouds
Yet, it would be wrong to blindly accept the material contained in The Three
Pillars of Zen as being the heart of Zen classical Chinese Zen, that is. There
is much presented in Kapleau's book which is more indicative of Sanbokyodan
revisionism than Zen.
darkzen.com OpEd
The resource for this article is Robert Sharf's old chestnut:
Japanese Journal
of Religious Studies: Sanbokyodan - Zen and the way of New Religion
(file in PDF format)