Meditation leads you away from Zen?

How is that possible?

Meditation is a danger and waste of time

Huineng: some teachers of meditation instruct their disciples to keep a watch on their mind for tranquility, so that it will cease from activity. Henceforth the disciples give up all exertion of mind. Ignorant persons become insane from having too much confidence in such instruction. Such cases are not rare, and it is a great mistake to teach others to do this.

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Dongshan: Enlightenment has no entrance

Zen Masters Tell You Not to Meditate

Foyan: sitting meditation and concentration do not amount to inner freedom.

Huangbo: you should not try to supplement that perfection by such meaningless practices

Meditate your mind into a vegetable

1. We've got lots of meditators that never amounted to anything: /r/zen/wiki/sexpredators
2. We have ZERO Cases of someone meditating themselves into enlightenment
3. We have [warnings](r/zen/wiki/warnings) and Cases rejected meditation.
4. Even Science is worried about meditation making you crazy: https://www.reddit.com/r/zensangha/wiki/meditation_science

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Welcome! ewk comment: When somebody suggests any kind of religious practice, always ask who invented it and where the method was first recorded... you'll save time that way.

When somebody claims something "really works", ask for the names of the people it "really works" for.

You can close the case on your own.

Submitted February 18, 2022 at 10:01AM by ewk https://ift.tt/9eQmw5B