about your day today if you had already seen your nature and attained enlightenment?
If you intend to cultivate such a practice, you have to see your nature before you can put an end to rational thought. To attain enlightenment without seeing your nature is impossible. Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
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To point out 'essential Zen-teachings' is almost impossible, given the variety of schools, the extended history of 1500 years, and the emphasis on suchness, reality just-as-it-is, which has to be expressed in daily life, not in words.
Would you have had the clarity and peace of mind to make new plans for the year instead of fumble around trying to win an argument online?
Could you have enjoyed lunch more because you weren't anticipating, or dreading, the event following it?
Etc.
I'm trying to see in what concrete ways the practice of Zen intersects with y'allz daily life. Thanks. Oh and in the meantime
::Hands you a glass of cold, fresh lemonade::
Submitted March 07, 2018 at 05:41AM by pohw http://ift.tt/2FjnE8k
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