Zazen Notes

A friend writes:

My recent insights lead me to reaffirm that it is truly the mind that moves. However, that mind is not separate or singular, or even one pointed. It’s beyond conceptualizations.

Maybe my friend and I can find common ground in our understanding of the practice of seated meditation, regardless of the nature of “the mind ...  read more

A friend responded to my last post, Not the Wind, Not the Flag:

I cannot see the connection to life, cleaning cat boxes, cooking, shopping, driving, bathing and suffering.

Let me try to make that connection explicit, here.

Gautama the Buddha said that he returned to “that first characteristic of concentration in which I ever constantly ...  read more

Do not concern yourself with anything;
Fix the mind nowhere.
Fixing the mind nowhere,
Limitless brightness shows itself.

(from “Song of the Mind” 6^th century C.E., by Niutou Farong, “Xin ming”, tr. Master Sheng Yen)

What does it mean, to “fix the mind nowhere”?

Koun Franz, Zen teacher and editor for “Lions Roar”, spoke about ...  read more