tsddb@acad3.alaska.edu (BROWN DOUG D) (06/05/91)
Dear Mr. Wheeler, Except for your tendency to proselytize, I thought your description of being in the presence of an enlightened person was very good. You're right, the words don't matter much, the experience is so convincing. I had similar experiences twice in Japan meeting with two zen roshis over a long period of time. As a life-long skeptic and empirical kind of person who only had an academic interest in zen, and buddhism in general, a few exchanges with the real thing and it can all of a sudden become so self- evident.