[Buddha-l] Akālika Forum

[Franz Metcalf]

Dear Curt et al.,

Somehow I find I agree with everything you (and Taigen) wrote in your  
post, and yet I don't think it contradicts what I was asserting.

We do, as you say, indeed all enjoy absolving ourselves of past (and  
current) sins. And Zen has, as Taigen says, been appropriated in the  
West as various things that reduce or distort it. But it is precisely  
scholars of Zen--such as Taigen himself--who have freed some of us  
Western appropriators from some of our illusions and delusions about  
Zen. Taigen should know, as he speaks with the greatest authority on  
this, being simultaneously a top tier scholar and a genuine Zen master.

Which leads me to thank you, Curt, for the link to Taigen's latest  
book. Didn't know about this latest oeuvre.

Thanks,

Franz