Originally Posted by
AlanLa
Language is labels, and I find the hardest and last thing to drop in zazen is language labels of things, because it is so ubiquitous. Frankly, dropping likes and dislikes is easy compared to dropping wall in front of me, time sitting so far, pain in body parts, dog barking and all those other really really basic things (labels) we get left with in zazen. Even just sitting is a label, or we make it one when we think about what we are doing in zazen. Labels create separation, because as soon as I label something, especially me as a "self," there is a separation from all that is unlabeled. The Buddha dharma is the unlabeled.