Zen and mindlessness

I want my Zen master to:

To talk passionately about politics. I want him to have fallen out with someone at a dinner party over a racist jibe.

To talk passionately about his love for insects, or photography, or hiking.

To loose his rag sometimes with the endless spam emails he gets.

To occasionally sucumb to a late night ciggerette after a particularly hard week at work.

To have found it particularly hard to get over his relationship break up.

To half the time be calm and serene, the other half utterly unable to know which we way to turn.

To never read about Buddhism, or go to endless Dharma talks or watch 500 Buddhism youtube videos each year. He knows enough and the searching is over.

To be a Marxist as much as a Buddhist.

To spend a whole afternoon thinking on and off of a poem he had just read by T.S Eliot.

To forget Buddhism for whole months whilst still maintaining a practice.

To feel desire so strong that he laughs at the power of it and follows it whenever he wants to.

Sometimes I watch Dharma talks and modern Buddhist masters and I get the sense that it's all emptiness and mindfullness but no grist for the mill. I want my Zen master to be human, not half a human. 

Can anyone relate?

Submitted April 30, 2020 at 01:43PM by millwallmatters https://ift.tt/2Sp33nz