Level I Zen Class - 2nd Noble Truth

We talked about the Second Noble Truth today.

As universal causes of all human suffering, they are of two categories: erroneous views, and erroneous behavior.

In erroneous behavior, we discuss 1. dualistic views. 2. denial of causality. 3. false self. We only talked about the dualistic view and a little bit of false self today. We'll continue with the rest via skype next week (from Seattle).

One of the points discussed was how Buddhism relate to philosophy and science. See the next post.

Meanwhile, for students of the class, review and think about:

1. What are examples of dualistic views?

2. What dualistic views do you have?

3. How can we transcend these extreme/biased perspectives?

4. The blind men and the elephant--how are we like the blind men?

5. Read the lecture notes and think about the "false self".