[O]ur “goalless sitting” in Zazen is –not– merely sitting on our butts, self-satisfied, feeling that we “just have to sit here and we are Buddha“. Far from it. It is, instead, to-the-marrow dropping of all need and lack. That is very different. Someone’s “just sitting around” doing nothing, going no where, complacent or resigned, giving up, killing time, is not in any way the same as “Just Sitting” practice wherein nothing need be done, with no where that we can go or need go ...
... So, if someone were to think I am saying, “
All you need to do in Zazen is sit down on one’s hindquarters, and that’s enough … just twiddle your thumbs in the ‘Cosmic Mudra’ and you are Buddha” then, respectfully, I believe they do not get my point. But if they understand, “
There is absolutely no place to be, where one needs to be or elsewhere where one can be, than on that Zafu in that moment, and that moment itself is all complete, all-encompassing, always at home, the total doing of All Life, Time and Space fully realized” … they are closer to the flavor.
However, as there is no dial that says "Hey...thats not Zazen, thats Zoning out...." How can I tell the difference?
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Originally Posted by Daitetsu
I think when you sit on the cushion and have the right posture, you are well on track, and when there comes a however, aha .... a however, when there comes a "I'm zoning out" than you just noticed that thought. What Daitetsu said, sit down and let go, thats really difficult (for me at least, so I think I need more training). And when the However is gone some day something else might come, maybe a "but" or a "when finally does ..." or whatever. Our mind seems to always have some ideas.
