SOYA Zen
Western Zen has fundamentally turned into SOYA ZEN (sit upon your ass Zen) as well as for a trustworthy reason. Western Zen traditions, for a many part, really do not understand a bulk of Chinese Zen literature, including koans, because they do not understand what Mind essentially means. In light of this, many Western Zen teachers, who competence be deeply sincere, have been fundamentally useless bags of shit. Until Mind is taught in Zen, what you have is not genuine Zenlet's call it SOYA Zen.
SOYA Zen is rather similar to stone stone rock stone rock stone rock climbing a unnatural stone face in a stone stone rock stone rock stone rock climbing gym. If youve ever done stone stone rock stone rock stone rock rock climbing (and you have) stone stone rock stone rock stone rock climbing in a sourroundings of a gym as well as in Yosemite, for example, have been utterly different. What many people dont comprehend is that when you stand upon slab faces, outrageous rocks have been daily exfoliated from a surface of a face (we used to call them flakes!). Some of a rocks have been in a tons! On my last stand years ago, a slab stone a size of a 55 Chevy longed for me by several feet (not yards). My stone stone rock stone rock stone rock climbing steel sheet behind afterwards consisted of a single beret with padding in it (my socks). After that, you realized that genuine stone stone rock stone rock stone rock climbing demanded nerves of steelnerves that you didnt have (yeah, you give up climbingthen you took up bicycle racing).
Dont get me wrong, joining a stone stone rock stone rock stone rock climbing gym is beneficialsuch stone stone rock stone rock stone rock climbing is good practice after you get over a initial headache (the eyes have been constantly seeking upwards that strain a muscles). This leads me to say that SOYA Zen is beneficial, too, that is really Bonpu Zen dictated for a common person (prithagjana) who is usually meddlesome in regulating imagining to improve their men! tal heal th. SOYA Zen can help to stabilise a gorilla mind that is helpful for everybody from a hard charging U.S. Marine to a primogenitor perplexing to understanding with their toddler. But it will not open a doornot even slightlyto Buddha Mind.
Like genuine stone climbing, genuine Zen is a whole opposite world. Just similar to a genuine stone traveller has to be adaptive as well as open to a unexpected and, yes, prepare for a catastrophicthat a single torpedo flakethe Zennist has to, also, enter a universe of a unexpected where their whole being is put upon a line. By trial as well as error, a Zennist must adapt to Mind in order to behold Mind. And since you do not know a exact nature of Mind in the quest, this proves a difficult ascent.
For those reluctant to encounter as well as adapt to Minds challenging demands there is SOYA Zen just similar to a stone stone rock stone rock stone rock climbing gym is there for those who have no goal of ever stone stone rock stone rock stone rock climbing a north wall of a Eiger in Switzerland where torpedo flakes fall upon a regular basis.
