Controversial but genuine question.
Once you learn about impermanence, non-self, emptiness etc. and once you begin following zen masters' advice to stop conceptual thought and just be, this is it (heavy Huangbo vibes atm.)...
What, ultimately is the point? What does zen give you? Peace? Some sort of contentment/happiness? Just the satisfaction of seeing it how it is? How do you reconcile that with "nothing to attain"?
If therw truly is nothing to attain, what's to stop you from getting tired of it all and just living your small, impermanent life, focusing on hedonism/family, whatever your beat is? Striving for things, being successful occasionally, failing at other times and ultimately running out of time and dying?
No wonder religion is so alluring!
Submitted August 21, 2020 at 11:16PM by SpringRainPeace https://ift.tt/32eKneb
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