That Zen is an explosives store doesn't mean blow it up

Zen is destructive to attachment, certain associations and identities, delusions arising from an untrained mind, etc.

If you know that everything comes from the mind, don’t become attached. Once attached, you’re unaware.

But once you awaken to your original body and mind," you’re no longer bound by attachments.

Once you put an end to karma and nurture your awareness, any attachments that remain will come to an end.

The three realms are greed, anger, and delusion. To leave the three realms means to go from greed, anger, and delusion back to morality, meditation, and wisdom.

The employment of this destructiveness is strategic, in that it is directed towards certain phenomena for the purpose of creating awareness, awakening, enlightenment.

Occasionally you'll see the destructiveness of Zen over-employed or misused, in such statements as "there's no purpose to Zen."

This post is an extension of the discussion about /r/zen with respect to it's proclivities towards nihilism or a sort of postmodernist relativism in which the demolition unit, instead of rigging the bridge to blow, is driving around town throwing live explosives into Honda Odysseys and Starbucks drive-thru windows.

Zen isn't raw conceptual destruction. It advocates certain behaviors and is a philosophy, arguably a religion. It is a concept that destroys and eats and shits out other ideas, but not itself. It advocates just-sitting or wall-gazing with the intent to dissolve/starve attachments and their associated delusions from the mind, giving rise to

the eternal bliss of nirvana

Submitted December 15, 2017 at 02:39PM by pohw http://ift.tt/2ywkhCu