Sublime

Shepherd – like Neil Gunn and like the Scottish explorer–essayist W.H. Murray – was strongly influenced by her reading in Buddhism and the Tao.

In my own life, Zen and psychoanalysis have been practiced in tandem now for thirty years. Each continues to challenge, inform, and enrich the perspective of the other.

We have to experience the inseparability of the delusion and enlightenment, not try to eliminate one and stay always attached to the other.

La question centrale, dans tout ceci, sur le plan historique, c'est qu'avec les grands systèmes non duels, de Plotin en Occident à Nagarjuna en Orient, nous voyons un accent placé sur l'équilibrage et l'intégration de ces deux mouvements. Le courant Ascendant ou transcendantal de la sagesse, ou Eros, ou prajna, doit être équilibré avec le courant

(Paul Reps, Zen Flesh, Zen Bones,

Whereas one’s cosmology provides a context for ecology within the nature of the universe, one’s ontological assumptions and perspectives take into consideration the nature of being, existence, reality, and relationships between all things. One ontological or spiritual stance is that all individual minds, human and nonhuman, participate in a