"So big mind is something to express, but it is not something to figure out."--Shunryu Suzuki
If we already have big mind, then why do we have to practice zazen?
The purpose of Zen is not to obtain something that we do not already
have. We practice zazen to purify our observation of things. When we do not judge, when
we are not attached to our ideas of good and evil, we see reality as it
is.
Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life, to compare it with such things as we know, would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights' Entertainments.--Henry David Thoreau in Walden
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