Pillars of Zen the Road Essay

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Student C. stands, literally, with his big toe on the threshold of kensho; there is, as Yautani-roshi continually shouts but "one more step." Yet, it is the most difficult step of all. Divesting oneself of all other things is almost as nothing to divesting oneself of oneself.

At the discourse's end Student C. has yet to achieve kensho, but it seems inevitable. He has moved beyond the point of self-actualization and entered a phase of his enlightenment wherein a positive feedback loop is at work. As Yasutani-roshi explains in an earlier lecture, a man who sets his pipe down and loses it begins by searching aimlessly but the intensity of his search increases the longer it continues such that, not finding what he knows to be close, the man becomes obsessed with the search.

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At times Student C. expresses disillusionment and weariness with the search, as any true hero long on the road of trials, yet it may be submitted that no man can come as close to kensho as Student C. comes and ever truly turn back......

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