Friday, May 6, 2011

A Moment of Forgetfulness

"But the purpose of studying Buddhism is to study ourselves and to forget ourselves."--Shunryu Suzuki

This is where most psychologists get it wrong. They study human nature the way a Zoologist studies animals. But man is much more than a psycho-physical organism.

If you truly want to know who you are, dare to enter the unknown. Zen practice is the effort to forget ourselves on purpose. At first we study ourselves and we are soon convinced by our study that it is absolutely necessary to forget ourselves.

When we forget ourselves, when the ego vanishes, we discover the true meaning of our existence.
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