Theos-Talk Archives (May 2003 Message tt00123)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Mauri <mhart@i...> wrote:
> The following from D.T. Suzuki's "Studies in Zen" 
> might be seen (by some?) as offering an interesting 
> perspective:

What may not be apparent to some readers is that Suzuki is saying Zen 
is not intellectual. Theosophists go to Baskin Robbins to read 
magazines about ice cream and form a discussion group to argue 
endlessly about what ice cream must taste like to those few who 
belong to the Great White Lodge of ice cream lovers and incidentally 
to identify "black magicians" who doubt they have it right. Zen 
students go there to buy a cone and bite into it. The Theosophist 
will invite you to a lecture about ice cream. The Zen master will 
invite you to have a bite.