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Stewart W. Holmes

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WHAT IS THE ZEN MASTER TALKING ABOUT?

ETC.: A Review of General Semantics 1993 Stewart W. Holmes

I INTEND IN THE FOLLOWING to make sense of Zen non-sense. Fundamental Zen terms like naturalness and emptiness and nothingness are used in disregard of the COIK principle: Clear Only If Known. For example, Shunryu Suzuki, a Zen master, said, It is absolutely necessary for everyone to believe in nothing. (Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice. New York and...