While I haven’t been to the bigger Circling Europe events, I have learned Circling from Lucas who’s in good standing with the main Circling Europe crowd. I know what it is even without having to look at the 6-figure web presence that’s still wanting at explaining it.
The Circling Europe page links plenty of people as influences for Circling Europe and not a single one who comes from a strict Zen perspective or even a non-Zen Buddhist background.
On the other hand, there are Western phenomolgists like Nietzsche and Heidegger. I think it’s a mistake to identify Western-thinking with analytical Philosophy and pretend that we didn’t have many Western thinkers who also thought differently.
I think it’s easy to get lost in inaccurate historical narratives when speaking about West and East. Plenty of Westerns are quite capable of dialectic thinking.
I have other reasons to believe they have a Zen influence that are not their webpage.
I am confused by your latter two paragraphs, as it seems like my first two paragraphs in the previous comment should have addressed those concerns. I’ll put forward Val’s “In praise of fake frameworks” post as further response.
While I haven’t been to the bigger Circling Europe events, I have learned Circling from Lucas who’s in good standing with the main Circling Europe crowd. I know what it is even without having to look at the 6-figure web presence that’s still wanting at explaining it.
The Circling Europe page links plenty of people as influences for Circling Europe and not a single one who comes from a strict Zen perspective or even a non-Zen Buddhist background.
On the other hand, there are Western phenomolgists like Nietzsche and Heidegger. I think it’s a mistake to identify Western-thinking with analytical Philosophy and pretend that we didn’t have many Western thinkers who also thought differently.
I think it’s easy to get lost in inaccurate historical narratives when speaking about West and East. Plenty of Westerns are quite capable of dialectic thinking.
I have other reasons to believe they have a Zen influence that are not their webpage.
I am confused by your latter two paragraphs, as it seems like my first two paragraphs in the previous comment should have addressed those concerns. I’ll put forward Val’s “In praise of fake frameworks” post as further response.