Joseph Goldstein: It’s Not Either-Or.

FEATURES There's something I want to read, from Chinul, Korean Zen master of the eleventh century. Joseph Goldstein: It's Not Either-Or I like Chinul because he acknowledges both sides - that these moments of sudden awakening are possible, and yet habit energies are extremely difficult to remove suddenly. In most Theravada traditions, early Buddhist traditions, nibbana/nirvana is said to transcend awareness; awareness itself is a conditioned phenomenon. [Extracted from the article]