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Zen and the Doctrine of Sudden Enlightenment
One of the ideas associated with chan is a doctrine of sudden enlightenment. It's an approach to that which assumes that in some profound way this achievement is already innate within people, within those who are seeking it. To achieve it is more a sudden realization that one already has this thing, and therefore it must be a sudden in that sense. And that is what zen was thought of as being, herry green. Tg: "I would take a different perspective for another time"