#209 When, where and how do you have fun….arnaud?
When, where and how do you have “fun” Arnaud?
D, a very good friend of mine leaving in San Francisco told me the following over the phone:
“Practicing Zen Buddhism for many years at the San Francisco Zen center and reading your blogs, I found that Zen philosophy and its Zen Masters teachers are somewhat dull, pessimistic, depressed and even boring. hey seem to live without expecting anything”
“ Why that”? I replied.
D: “ All Zen literature talks about controlling our ego, controlling our emotions, desires, pleasure, expectation; not having nostalgia of the past, controlling our dreams about the future…. This is pretty grim, bleak and gloomy. In other words no fun, don’t you think”
“This is your view Denise, not mine”, I replied”.