Zen Isthe psychology of the immediate momentNOW!
Immediate means not mediated. Egos thrive in mediated
experience on the thrills and threats of sentient beings* (beliefs,
opinions, attitudes, etc.). Egos can never be immediate since
they obsessively rehearse past emotional experiences that
maintain the artificial sense of self importance.
When the ego experiences a threat to its sense of self importance
it generates suffering in the mind. If the suffering is great enough
it will drive the mind to seek an end to this suffering or breakdown
into egotistical blaming, shaming, or simply fall apart.
If the mind with the suffering ego is fortunate it will come upon
the Truth of Suffering, enter the BuddhaDharma, and experience
a breakthrough. Since ego is artificial (false) Truth dissolves it.
Truth does not know about egos just as light does not know about
darkness. Truth is already in the mind like an embryo in an egg.
Zazen is the nest for the awakening mind simply resting and
watching very still. Without doing, mind grows brighter and
brighter dissipating the self agitating ego until Mind is perfectly
still.
NOW there are no moving experiencestime has fallen apart.
On the Zazen Throne of the Buddhas sits a radiant expression of light.
Zen Masters move their tongues and their bodies from this Mind
that is perfectly still.
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*And who are these sentient beings, potential within our minds?
~Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
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