Zen thinking — [Void] in the real life
After years or months I don’t remember still, I suddenly realized a significance
of the words in an episode in the Agama Sutra.
(= I described it in the post [Three times Buddha] )
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“Thinking without thinking” sound Zen like approach you may think though,
it is nothing fancy at all = 90% of our thinking was actually done in this way.
With utter annoyance of the philosophers, this fact was revealed to the mankind
when a Brain Scanner was first introduced = after all, we, the most intelligent
creature on the planet is not necessary consciously carrying-out our
thinking process. —– (We only conscious of it’s process after it was converted to
the lexical code on the last moment.)
The reality is, when we say “I think”, in fact, the most of the thinking has been
already done a moment ago without us noticing it.
And in the almost all the case, so-called “My Decision” was actually made
out of our conscious.
So, “thinking without thinking” is in reality “thinking without noticing that
I was thinking” = we are in deed always keep thinking or our brain is always active
yet simply we are not aware of it. So that, not only an obvious “work-out to solve
an arithmetic problem kind” of conscious thinking, even so-called meditation is
nothing but a practice of “latent thinking process”and often, our brain find a
connection, even an answer from completely unrelated matter. (Very creative !)
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There was not a significant issue I was facing, or even an important question =
therefore it was not “posted” in my mind = just there as one of the memory, yet,
a passage in the scripture was suddenly highlighted and gained the significance.
= A ha ! I found it’s here.
(Answer was always given when we are not intentionally seeking = When
our mind was free — or in the state of Mushin or in the Void, suddenly
the connection was made. —– some time in the bathroom. 😀 )
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Lord Buddha told the horse trainer “Stop speaking is the same to kill the person”
(Please read the post.) —– this is not just an action on the mouth, but the hole
mind-set = In the mind-set, the person became a landscape hence no longer
recognized as a person. So, its existence is “Exists as not Exists” = this is
nothing but a state of “Void”. = In deed, this is the very core of what
Lord Buddha’s teaching was, and what all about the Zen Buddhism is.
To detach and free the Mind and see the Void and by freeing the mind,
it enables us to see the dynamism of Karma and the Dharma, hence enables
to live with Dharma moment to moment.
—– This is THE paradox, “By detaching the view and emotionally free from the
subject, thence the mind can see subject even more in it’s details”.
= Because, the mind is not stack in a small part of the subject or fixed view, but
it is seeing the subject in any point and from any angle.
= this is the very Clear Eyes to see the Truth.
And the way to gain the Enlightenment.
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