Monday, January 29, 2007

The Whiff of Untruth

If everything in the Buddha’s teaching can be reduced to unconscious functioning of the autonomic nervous system, then there isn't necessarily any room in Zazen for conscious awareness (feeling) or for conscious volition (i.e. thinking).

But something about this reductionist proposition has the whiff of not being true.

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