Wednesday, April 13, 2011

That's Clear

Thomas Merton, the great Trappist monk, wrote of the "de-institutionalization" of the mind as one of the aims of Christian contemplation.

That is the true purpose of Zen as well—to clear away the confusion of your own mind and to challenge your inherited beliefs and your assumptions about how the world works.
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