Despite its development in Asia, the form of Chinese religion originally came from India and later refined in Japan. Zen Buddhism It has long been appealing to Westerners. Some of it owes to the reserve elegant aesthetic that popular culture brings together. Theoretically, rather than acquiring knowledge or increasing the hierarchy, Zen practitioners achieve freedom through direct experiences in reality, being tolerant of ideas, not divided by classification schemes that are bothered by desires or categorized from one thing. Of course, that’s easier than that, and for some, even the life of meditation doesn’t do the trick.
in The interview clip aboveLinzaizen Monkyodonno explains how he arrived in the Zen world. He came from the monk Ks line and took over the role after the death of his grandfather and father. Already in his late 20s he worked as a physics teacher. It is a profession that is hardly prepared due to the rigour of the temple, even as the supposed and assumed consensus between high physical and Buddhist truths.
“I went into a role that is completely opposite to logic,” he remembers. “A world where logic does not exist.” Think of the Zen Coan we all heard. It requires seemingly impossible answers to the sounds of applause in one hand and the appearance of the face before parents were born.
Annoyed Yodonno, who was advised to stop trying to gain knowledge, skills and understanding from the master, began to realize that “Zen is everything.” The important question is “How to live without worry within Zen.” It cannot be learned from any amount of research, but it is only experienced. We can directly feel how we create our own suffering in our own minds, and we have no choice but to do so. This means that we have no choice but to abandon the concept of control over reality. In everyday life, he explains Clips above (From the documentary too) Freedom from sufferingabout the types of Buddhism), we must be able to move freely between “undivided Zen and divided worlds.” The latter is where almost all of us are already spending our days. Of course, we don’t have any wonder, not without our joy.
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Based in Seoul Colin marshall Write and broadcasting stationTS about cities, languages, and culture. His projects include the Substack Newsletter Books about cities And the book The Stateless City: Walking through 21st century Los Angeles. Follow him on social networks previously known as Twitter @colinmarshall.
