{"id":2227,"date":"2024-02-25T15:01:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T23:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2024-02-26T11:18:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T19:18:04","slug":"the-practice-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/?p=2227","title":{"rendered":"The Practice of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.<\/p>\n

(Carl Jung: The Philosophical Tree; Collected Works 13: Alchemical Studies. Paragraph 335)<\/p>\n

Shunryu Suzuki described the true practice of seated meditation as “just sitting”, meaning that “doing something” in the act of sitting has ceased.\u00a0 I believe, as Gautama the Buddha said, that the cessation of “doing something” in speech, body, or mind is a contact of freedom.<\/p>\n

I don’t think the integration of childhood memories, pre-speech memories, and inured emotional responses can take place apart from that cessation of “doing something” in the body and mind and that contact of freedom.<\/p>\n

I practice more now, as I see that the cessation I experience in “just sitting”\u00a0 helps to\u00a0provide a sense of timing in my life, a sense of timing\u00a0that seems related to a whole beyond what I can know.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not looking to become enlightened, or to make the darkness conscious.<\/p>\n

\u2026 time, just as it is, is being, and being is all time.<\/p>\n

(Dogen:\u00a0 “Uji (Being-Time)”; \u201cThe Heart of D\u014dgen’s Sh\u014db\u014dgenz\u014d\u201d, tr by Waddell, Norman;\u00a0Abe, Masao. SUNY Press. 2001. p\u00a048)<\/p>\n

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One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular. (Carl Jung: The Philosophical Tree; Collected Works 13: Alchemical Studies. Paragraph 335) Shunryu Suzuki described the true practice of seated meditation as “just sitting”, meaning that “doing something” in … <\/p>\n

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