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Zen Language in Our Time: The Case of Pojo Chinul's Huatou Meditation
- Philosophy East and West
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 55, Number 1, January 2005
- pp. 80-98
- 10.1353/pew.2004.0047
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Zen philosophy of language is discussed by exploring the concepts of live anddeadwords,involvement with meaningand involvement with words, and the three mysterious gates as they are employed in Pojo Chinul's huatou meditation. A comparison is made betweenthe Zenuse of language and Merleau-Ponty's philosophy of visibility, Julia Kristeva's idea of the semiotic and the symbolic, and Kierkegaard's concept of anxiety, in an attempt to provide a paradigm to understand the Zen Buddhist vision.