I always found Colin to be kind of irritating. I just didn't like him, and I was planning on avoiding interviews with him. After watching half of this talk, I changed my mind. Maybe he's not so bad after all...
I’d like him to clarify what he means by experiencing someone else’s enlightenment experience. Sounds fictional. I prefer to listen to someone that states their ideas as just their ideas. Someone more humble someone more Zen…
i think he does not mean actually experiencing the teacher’s actual enlightenment - but rather that it is possible for the student to catch glimpses , as it were , of where the teacher is coming from ….
A monk, feeling he had learned all he could from his current teacher, was leaving the monastery in search of a different teacher. Suddenly he stubbed his toe on a stump. In the midst of the pain, he asked himself, "Since body and mind are empty, where does this pain come from?" With this question, he attained a deep realization (enlightenment). One of the kong-an questions for this story is, "What did the monk attain?" In order to answer, you must become the monk at the moment of his enlightenment. Then, you get it! This is what it means to 'experience another person's enlightenment.' Very simple.
Thank you Colin. That was extremely helpful.
Why? "Mind creates everything." Thanks, Collin.
The Things They Carried (1990) by Tim O'Brien,
I always found Colin to be kind of irritating. I just didn't like him, and I was planning on avoiding interviews with him. After watching half of this talk, I changed my mind. Maybe he's not so bad after all...
I’d like him to clarify what he means by experiencing someone else’s enlightenment experience. Sounds fictional. I prefer to listen to someone that states their ideas as just their ideas. Someone more humble someone more Zen…
i think he does not mean actually experiencing the teacher’s actual enlightenment - but rather that it is possible for the student to catch glimpses , as it were , of where the teacher is coming from ….
A monk, feeling he had learned all he could from his current teacher, was leaving the monastery in search of a different teacher. Suddenly he stubbed his toe on a stump. In the midst of the pain, he asked himself, "Since body and mind are empty, where does this pain come from?" With this question, he attained a deep realization (enlightenment). One of the kong-an questions for this story is, "What did the monk attain?" In order to answer, you must become the monk at the moment of his enlightenment. Then, you get it! This is what it means to 'experience another person's enlightenment.' Very simple.