When I was younger, I read and re-read 101 Zen Koans, along with the Book of Ten Bulls, a book I later repurchased, if not in such a prima edition as my mother's were.
zen, btw, literally means "instant (as in lightning)". Lightning, when it "strikes", has been shown by fast frame photography, to in fact involve a short bolt leaping up from a charged ground to meet a long electrical induction in a charged atmosphere, commonly called "the lightning bolt". So, Zen Buddhism concerns itself with the Instant of Enlightenment, aiming to produce critical moments of Progress Towards, and ultimately the Tipping Point of, Enlightenment.
For me, and I did not realise what had happened until years later, after the effect had settled in, my Enlightenment lasted 3 days. It was not an Instant thing, at least in the vulgar sense: it was of an Eternal (atemporal) nature, so those 3 days passed as if in One Instant.
That said simply to satisfy the Enlightenment statement, something of no greater concern to another than the simple fact of it having been made, and of many a lesser concern, even to that instant which is zero.
So far as the Buddhist precepts go, I profer my Translation of the Four Noble Truths along side the more usual translations:
1) Existence is Suffering; Existence is Experienced.
2) The Cause of Suffering is Attachment; The Cause of Experience is Interaction.
3) There is Release from Suffering; There is Know Need for Interaction.
4) The Path to Release from Suffering is the Noble Eight Fold Path of the Buddhist; The Paths to Know Need for Interaction are the Noble Eight Fold Paths of the Thelemites.
One might render concise the Noble Eight Fold Path(s) as "Correct Action", Action being understood as occuring not only in a Physical sense, but on any plane where Interaction occur, and Correct as being more verbal than a noun.
That the Moment One lives in involves the Past, the Present and the Future, the Basic Tenses of Time in the English language (Arabic, eg, has only two, while Greek has five) is I think an important point, lest wee forget.
So, no, I am not a Zen Buddhist. Tibetan Buddhism interests me more, but neither am I from that School of Enlightenment, mine own being best understood in light of Ancient Egyptian Magick and that Branch of the Tree of Voodoo I call ApaiedA Zulu Vudu.
But enough of such Schooling
is Enlightenment enough;
Before I was Enlightened, a Mountain was a Mountain.
While I sought Enlightenment, a Mountain was no Mountain.
Enlightened, a Mountain was a Mountain once again.
And, during the Enlightenment, a Mountain was a Social Agitation for a Nation.
Master Anarchy
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