From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!lime!houxg!hogpc!houti!pegasus!pete
Newsgroups: net.religion
Title: Re: Zen--reading and practice
Article-I.D.: pegasus.328
Posted: Wed Apr 20 11:09:31 1983
Received: Fri Apr 22 20:30:34 1983
References: pegasus.323 flairvax.114

Yes, some of the Zen masters had an aversion to Zazen, after they had used
it as tool. 
My point is that Zen is a practice, and that discusions about Zen or reading
of Zen masters often can miss the point.
Zen masters are famed for their pardoxical methods of arguement, the
same master who disparages Zazen may in another writing praise its virtues.
If to practice Zen is to learn to avoid attachements, then an attachment to 
Zazen, which is a tool, can leave a student stuck in the same bind as before.
However no Zen master that I know of recommends talking or reading too much
about Zen as part of the practice.