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Zen Language in Our Time: The Case of Pojo Chinul's Huatou Meditation

Jin Y. Park

Philosophy East and West 2005 DOI: 10.1353/pew.2004.0047 (opens in new tab)

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Characteristics Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed
Topics Buddhism Meditation
Key points Argues that Zen's use of language, as exemplified in Chinul's huatou meditation, can be understood through parallels with Merleau-Ponty's visibility, Kristeva's semiotic, and Kierkegaard's anxiety, providing a paradigm for the Zen Buddhist vision.

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Zen philosophy of language is discussed by exploring the concepts of live anddeadwords,involvement with meaningand involvement with words, and the three mysterious gates as they are employed in Pojo Chinul's huatou meditation. A comparison is made betweenthe Zenuse of language and Merleau-Ponty's philosophy of visibility, Julia Kristeva's idea of the semiotic and the symbolic, and Kierkegaard's concept of anxiety, in an attempt to provide a paradigm to understand the Zen Buddhist vision.

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