The essential requirement in studying Zen is concentrated focus. You don't engage in any forced actions: you just keep to the Fundamental. Right where you stand, you must pass through to freedom. You must see the original face and walk through the scenery of the fundamental ground. You do not change your ordinary actions, yet outside and inside are One Suchness. You act according to the natural flow and do not set up anything as particularly special—you are no different from an ordinary person.
-Yuanwu
Concentrated focus, unforced, must surely be truly subtle; in each every case sudden. The experience of self in meditation is unique; why is there a self who balks at the idea of not doing anything, when there isn't anything to do?
You'd think if everything is just in the wave of all other things, the mind would not need to garble on incessantly, to no purpose. Isn't it all right?
Dogen says, "think non-thinking." I really like the practice of the Theravadans and Tibetans, who reflect on their own coming death and the impermanence of every facet of self therein, quieting mind without force.
Submitted March 13, 2022 at 05:41AM by surupamaerl2 https://ift.tt/zotqMwa
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