Both Uses of
Zen
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Franny and Zooey
- Last month, Dean Sheeter (whose name usually transports Franny when I mention it) approached me with his gracious smile and bull whip, and I am now lecturing to the faculty, their wives, and a few oppressively deep-type undergraduates every Friday on Zen and Ma-hayana Buddhism.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- Much, much more important, though, Seymour had already begun to believe (and I agreed with him, as far as I was able to see the point) that education by any name would smell as sweet, and maybe much sweeter, if it didn't begin with a quest for knowledge at all but with a quest, as Zen would put it, for no-knowledge.†
Chpt 2.1
Definition:
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(Zen) school of Buddhism asserting that enlightenment can come through meditation and intuition rather than faith