Zazen Notes

A friend of mine wrote to say that the things I said in brief in my last post could have used expansion, that I was in fact too brief.

That post was a comment I made on the forum site “The Dao Bums”, on a thread entitled “Differences between dualism and non-dualism”.  What exactly is represented by “dualism” and “non-dualism” ...  read more

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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