Episode 16: On Dogen Zenji's 'Genjokoan'
Weird Studies
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The Importance of Pleasure in Zen Buddhism
There's an implicit, how could I call it? A kind of like decadent hedonism, I guess you could call it. It's in diving into the particulars and in going whole hog into the story of a moment. The passions really, like that one lives a good life. Find your pleasure, find your enjoyment, dive in, and then you're enlightened. Boom, that's it. How do you respond to that as someone who is, who is a Zen Buddhist? With a heavy sigh. You know, this is some left hand path shit, right? This is some... Right.
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