Buddhist masters of the past have explained the relationship between Buddhist theory and the Truth by way of a simple metaphor.
Here are a few of the topics covered by this very readable book: What is Religion, Meeting a True Master, Master Dogen, Science and Buddhism, Idealism and Materialism, Gautama Buddha, The Four Noble Truths, The Transmission of the Truth, Cause and Effect, Not Doing Wrong, Action: The Center of Buddhism, Zazen, The Four Philosophies..
It is humanistic Zen--Zen for human beings.
The Buddhism which emerges from To Meet the Real Dragon is Buddhism for Real people: ordinary human beings with ordinary human problems.
So this book is one such finger, a finger pointing at the moon, but the moon itself can be touched by you alone...
They are not, and can never be, the moon itself.
Ideas, theories, and explanations are merely fingers pointing at that far-away goal.
The Truth, they say, is like the distant moon.
Buddhist masters of the past have explained the relationship between Buddhist theory and the Truth by way of a simple metaphor
