I see many posts of people trying to stroke their egos, trying to sound enlightened. It might be that they're not even trying but they still just confuse people who are beginning on this "path/non-path". That's been a gripe I've had with most zen masters and practicioners I've met, they're all over the place and lose themselves jumping between the relative and the absolute, trying to frame the one thing in metaphors and silly mystical poems and stuff. Why do all that stuff?
All of this can be summed up in one sentence.
See yourself trying to do something and stop trying.
Congrats, you're now a zen master and are qualified to make people believe that there's some big secret that they have to sit thousands of hours for to understand.
Get your lazy asses off the zafu and change the way things are being explained, this is the 21st century and while *THIS* is the same, people are different so we need to be different too, we can't rely on the thousand year old metaphors of Dogen or even Deshimaru and the new wave to get the point across.
Maybe I'm stroking my ego with this post but I'm frustrated with this whole charade of zen.
Submitted September 24, 2020 at 01:34AM by Evil-3 https://ift.tt/361BFn9
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