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From: nedludd@ix.netcom.com(Ned Ludd)
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Subject: Re: Is Zen Understanding Like Judgment?
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In <34febe38.10019921@news.mindspring.com> kmccor@mindspring.com
(karen) writes: 

Michael:
>> "Dutchananda, once pointed out that "marga" (the way, path, in
>> Sanskrit) is not a regular old trail or street, but is a word
>> that originally meant the hunter's path.  The course is unknown
>> ahead of time to the hunter, who must sniff and look for signs
>> and watch and wait."
>> --Thank You and OK, An American Zen Failure in Japan, David Chadwick
>> P. 110

Karen:
> Aha, so I *have* read it after all.
> "Gary Snyder, a teacher of Buddhist hunters who prowls the Sierra
> Nevadas in California, has suggested that hunting is one of the
> experiential origins of meditation."
> -- Thank You and OK, An American Zen Failure in Japan, David Chadwick
> P. 109
>

    Ah, snipers and assassins.  Yes, an apt analogy for meditation!
    I guess the great sense is not difficult, only not well chosen
    and not selected.

                                                 Ned