Zazen practice.

Zen is about awareness, and using our awareness to learn the way reality, or the mind actually is.

If someone says, there's no need to practice, your already a Buddha, that could lead to lots of people, just acting however they please, and think that, for example, stealing is OK, because everything is Buddha mind, so anything goes.. However, stealing is a selfish act, that enhances greed, selfishness, bad karma etc.

So, by practice, meditation, we can learn, that these impulses, selfish desires, etc, are just habitual responses, arising from bad habits, acquired over a period of time..

We can still the mind, rest in pure awareness, to see, hopefully, the difference between awareness, and impulses, desires, feelings.

We can learn to use our mind and body appropriately, through meditation, or self reflection.

Submitted June 09, 2020 at 12:59PM by transmission_of_mind https://ift.tt/2Agy6Mo