[MD] kill all intellectual patterns

[Michael R. Brown]

Zen purports to lead its adherents to insights akin to that mentioned by 
Śākyamuni Buddha in his Flower Sermon in which he held up a white flower 
and just admired it in his hand.[2] Mahākāśyapa smiled faintly, and 
Śākyamuni Buddha picked that disciple as one who truly understood him 
and who was worthy to be his successor. - 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mah%C4%81k%C4%81%C5%9Byapa

This is why one of my major usernames, on AIM for instance, is Kasyapa.


MRB

On 11/16/2012 3:53 PM, MarshaV wrote:

[ snip ] “Twenty-five hundred years ago... “When the Buddha was asked to 
sum up his teaching in a single word, he said, “awareness.” ... “Not 
awareness of something in particular, but awareness itself --- being 
awake, alert, in touch with what is actually happening. (Hagen, Steve, 
‘Buddhism: Plain and Simple’, p.3)