Review: Agnieszka Kozyra -" Zen " 
Dear All,
Agnieszka Kozyra is one of the largest autorytetóww Poland in the understanding of a wide conceived Culture of Japan.
Below book review by Prof. A. Kozyra " Zen philosophy." Review published in the Gazeta Wyborcza. "
For my part, I noted that the book by prof. Agnieszka Kozyra is undoubtedly one of the most interesting theoretical work devoted to Zen Buddhism has ever appeared in the Polish language.
respectfully
Darius Wyspianski
" PHILOSOPHY OF ZEN"
Agnieszka Kozyra If you find by a man who knows he does not say a word - not keep silence! - Says one of the sayings of Zen. Wisdom? Gibberish? Poetic paradox? Zen is one of the most mysterious spiritual and religious phenomena East. Commonly in the West is associated with meditations for achieving inner freedom and enlightenment, they rarely say that Zen practice requires iron discipline, and the decision to exercise the spiritual is sometimes a matter of life and death - training sometimes ends in serious mental illness, so. Zen's disease. So how come closer to the Zen?
known in the West there are many studies on this stream of Buddhism - almost all posts operate the language of poetry, build around a Zen aura of mystery (even to develop an outstanding scientific DT Suzuki). Does this mean that rational thinking is doomed to the phenomenon of Zen to surrender?
In his wonderful, unique book, "Zen philosophy" Agnieszka Kozyra proves that it does not. The Zen emphasizes that words and concepts is often a trap, in which flows into the human mind. They immobilize the reality, that is something that by nature is in motion. Similarly, critical thinking about language can be found in Chinese Taoism, and European philosophy of Heidegger. Writes Agnieszka Kozyra, Zen does not reject logic and reason, but it points out the necessity of being exceeded.
task that the author has done, borders on intellectual juggling - not losing sight distance to the Zen philosophy, told about the Zen's. Philosophy seeks to answer the question of reality - what is it? Zen gives, according to Kozyra, the clear answer to this question - the reality is Emptiness. This emptiness is the absolute negation, because it negates not only affirmation, but also a negation of negation, and therefore can not be objectified. That which exceeds both the existence and nonexistence, it must include them in himself, and so it is absolutely contrary to the identity of being and nonexistence. " This reasoning can be difficult for the Western mind operates the opposite, exclusion. Buddhist emptiness as nothingness Heideggerowska is not a vacuum - it contains within it all, and what is the point of view, our logic is not compatible, like life and death. It is worth noting that it is often regarded in Europe as a hermetic Heidegger is one of the most translated filozofóww western Japan.
thirteenth-century Zen master Dogen stated: "Knowledge is to know the ways of the Buddha himself, and knowledge of oneself is tantamount of forgetting about myself. " This saying clearly reflects the logic of paradox, which operate the Zen masters. This
born in China and developed in Japan called the current message of Buddhism is beyond words, since the purpose of his teachings is the man with the precipitation patterns of perceiving reality, awakening. The Zen experience, therefore, shall be submitted to the theory, puts a premium on silence, but at the same time gives a man the absolute freedom of inquiry for the truth - Emptiness. Rational cognition can be so valuable, important on the road to enlightenment, because this road is the path of mindfulness, and the road crossing and change.
Agnieszka Kozyra "Zen philosophy", OWN, Warszawa ... "
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