Zazen Notes

Enlightenment is seeing through your belief in a person that chooses and realizing it was always just a delusion about how things are.

(stirling, “The Dao Bums”, “Differences between dualism and non-dualism”, May 3 2022)

I think it’s necessary to experience action in the absence of choice, before “belief in a person ...  read more

“You hear a lot of talk about enlightenment… I’m asking the Bums to describe it, and what you would know when you attain it.”

Bear with me.

Gautama the Shakyan described “action” as action out of determinate thought:

… I say that determinate thought is action. When one determines, one acts by deed, word, or thought.

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A friend commented about the meditative states (jhanas):

[The jhanas] would be an easy way (if you are familiar with the states) to get yourself as deep in emptiness as you could so that you could easily recognize the clear light in the bardo state.

… we commonly pass through some of the jhanas accidentally, not ...  read more