“The Zazen I speak of is not learning meditation, It is the manifestation of ultimate Reality. Traps and snares can never reach it. You must realize that just here in Zazen, Dharma is manifesting itself, and that from the first, dullness and distraction are struck aside.”
- Dogen Zenji
Usually people have the idea that they can attain wisdom if they do zazen. But from the first, zazen is nothing but wisdom. If we don’t understand this point, there is something stinky about our zazen. It is intellectual zazen - just the idea of zazen. It might look like zazen, but it is not zazen. It is just our everyday heater-shelter mind.
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Zazen is not about destroying our thoughts or doing away with our subjective points of view. It’s about how to deal with thoughts and views mindfully. In Zazen, mindfulness thoughts, and views all become simple and quiet because we are concentrated on just one thing, not many. At that time, mindfulness becomes very pure and clean, and our view becomes unified. When mindfulness, thoughts, and views all work together as one, this is zazen.
- Dainin Katagiri - p5. “You have to say something”
Posting this to address some of the questions/concerns regarding concentration, shammatha (tranquility), and vispassana (insight).
Remarkable insight from Dogen, wonderful expansion from Katagiri.
Submitted December 30, 2018 at 05:48AM by BrownClover http://bit.ly/2GMB5Pc
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