Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's enough just to be without hypocrisy, dogmatism, arrogance - embracing all opposites.
Nobody today is normal, everybody is a little bit crazy or unbalanced, people's minds are running all the time. Their perceptions of the world are partial, incomplete. They are eaten alive by their egos. They think they see, but they are mistaken; all they do is project their madness, their world, upon the world. There is no clarity, no wisdom in that!
During zazen, brain and consciousness become pure. It's exactly like muddy water left to stand in a glass. Little by little, the sediment sinks to the bottom and the water becomes pure.
Taisen Deshimaru
Taisen Deshimaru (弟子丸 泰仙, Deshimaru Taisen, 29 November 1914 - April 30, 1982) was a Japanese Sōtō Zen Buddhist teacher, who founded the Association Zen Internationale.
T. O. M's bit.
I'm not really interested in religion, or institutions, or whether Japanese soto zen isn't really zen..
I am interested in what people have to say though, when we get down to a basic level of the human being and the similar experience of being alive in this world.
It is in this vein, this open minded approach, that I like to look at what people actually say, without viewing them through the lens of bias, or through the lens of soto, or zen master or whatever..
Did this fella have owt interesting to say?
What say you, fellow r/zen peeps?
Submitted April 25, 2021 at 02:27PM by transmission_of_mind https://ift.tt/3sPR9Cn
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