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 The Zen Mind - An Introduction

 

Zen Mind

 

Zen mind is the "Natural" state of our beings:

No self, no identity, no memes, no beliefs.

 

Any idea of "what is" takes us away from what is

- to be in the moment, all ideas need to be gone.

There's not even an "I" to have the ideas.

 

The natural being acts as an outcome of the movement of the universe,

 in the same way that an artist's brush is moved by its "universe".

 

All "teachings", "spiritual" paths or "sacred" practices

actually take us away from the moment,

because it needs an "I" to do them,

with an agenda of some kind, something to gain.

All of which removes our beingness from the identity-free moment.

 

The only way that "what is" can be experienced is to lose all traces of self,

in which case the "what is" can't be experienced

because there is no one there to experience it.

 

Any description of the state of the natural mind is false, including this one.

"It" cannot be described. "It" is always "bigger" than the limiting description.

 

There is not even an "ultimate" state to gain, b

ecause the very idea that there is, takes us away from it.

 

All there is, is the operation of the universe in its all-ness.

There's no such thing as "enlightened" or "unenlightened".

These are just ideas of what is.

 

Even "bliss" or "transcendence" is a state of mind

that needs an "I" to experience those feelings.

Thoughts are the glue of our belief structures.

"I" is the creation of thoughts and beliefs.

 

What's happening, when we think we are functioning human beings,

is the operating system of the brain, running sophisticated meme/belief structures

that create the content of our identities and sense of self.

 

The only act awareness can "do" is to let go of "self" awareness.

Awareness, to be fully there, needs to have no "I" attached to it.

 

Where there was self, there is now "active" emptiness.

 

Action, from this place, is an instantaneous,

pure response to the call of the moment.

It is the moment, the universe acting, not the person.

 

True peace is an absence of agitation,

an absence of self-generated internal activity.

So peace cannot be "done",

or created - it's an absence of doing.

This allows unadulterated "what-is" to be.

 

All action out of this state is completely harmonious and non-conflicting.

There is nothing there to conflict with anything else.

 

A transcended being feels the world cleanly,

whereas an "I", full of beliefs and ideas of self,

overlays those unadulterated feelings with external content,

imbuing them with emotional "charge".

This charge is reactive to the world around it,

continually creating conflict as it attempts to dissipate.

 

Whatever is actual or real can only be there

when all ideas, all thoughts, all belief, all traces of identity are gone

- when there is no "I" left to take us out of the moment.

If the eternal now moment is all there is,

this may be the only way to be in it.

 

Thought is only necessary, only of any use,

when it is called for by the moment, for a particular task.

To keep thinking beyond the particular call of the moment is

the same as keeping your arm above your head all the time,

or hopping on one leg all the time.

 

What comes out of the moment relates only to that moment.

It's already past and nonexistent as it is experienced.

To hold to anything experienced or said in that moment,

is to live in the dead past.

 

If you can't touch it, show it, taste it,

does it have any reality?

 

 

 

http://www.becomereal.com/zen.html