This clinging and possessive ego-consciousness, seeking to affirm itself in "Liberation," craftily tries to outwit reality by rejecting the thoughts it "possesses" and emptying the mirror of the mind, which it also "possesses"-emptiness itself is regarded as a possession and an "attainment."

There is no enlightenment to be attained and no subject to attain it.

 

Zen is not "attained" by mirror-wiping meditation, but by "self-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now." We do not "come", we "are". Don't strive to become, but be.

The void (or the unconscious) may be said to have two aspects:

1. It simply is what it is.

2. It is realized, it is aware of itself, and to speak improperly, this awareness is "in us", or better, we are "in it."

 

It is to see things as they are and not to become attached to any thing - to be unconscious to be innocent of the working of a relative (empirical) mind - when there is no abiding of thought anywhere on anything - this is being unbound. This not abiding anywhere is the root of our life.

Prajna is not self-realization, but realization pure and simple, beyond subject and object. To see where there is no something (object) - this is true seeing; the seeing is the result of having nothing to stand on. It is simply "pure seeing," beyond subject and object, and therefore "no seeing." Zen Liberates the mind from servitude to imagined spiritual states as "objects," which too easily become hypostatized and turn into idols that obsess and delude the seeker.

Pure seeing "Non seeing" and no mind are not renunciations but fulfillment. The seeing that is without subject or object is "pure seeing"

The direct awareness in which is formed "truth that makes us free" - not the truth as an object of knowledge only, but the truth lived and experienced in concrete existential awareness.

There exists, in the martial art world, systems that are mechanical, classical, "no soul". The intelligent people feel that such systems... are" frames "that can kill the life of freedom of expression by their too rigid limitation. They feel that such practices are merely "doing" and not" being". Instead of promoting inward experience, the routines and workouts are imitative repetition, a mere product. Furthermore, these people feel that an ideology is a mere projection of hope. If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.

We are always in the process of becoming and nothing is fixed. have no rigid system in you and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing. Open your self and flow at once with the total flowing now. Fluidity and emptiness are convertible forms.

Adequate form requires individuality rather than imitative repetitiousness, brevity rather than bulkiness, clarity rather than obscurity, simplicity of expressin rather than complexity of form.