Don't Know Mind
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With palms together,
Good Morning Everyone,
Our discussion regarding the Virginia Tech killings is a good thing. Clearly, we need much more discussion and more importantly, I believe, a willingness to "leave home" regarding what we believe we know. In the Zen Peacemaker Order, loose as it is, there is a vow to "not know."
I really think Bernie Glassman-roshi and his colleagues at ZPO were right on with this.
It seems most of the time, if we watch our minds, we use our mental faculty to sift through information selecting that which supports our view, keeping us in the sanctuary of what we know, and discarding that which challenges this view, forcing us out of our comfortable home.
Thus, we are really not exploring our world, just re-enforcing the four walls of home.
Our zazen practice asks us to notice this.
Once we notice, we must then step into the world again. None of us gets a free pass; no one can just float by without change. We cannot stay in the Zendo forever.
We change: some us change into closed, hard, rocking chairs that only seem to move, others work toward being fluid, open, and flowing.
We all know that water defeats rock in the end.
Be well.
Good Morning Everyone,
Our discussion regarding the Virginia Tech killings is a good thing. Clearly, we need much more discussion and more importantly, I believe, a willingness to "leave home" regarding what we believe we know. In the Zen Peacemaker Order, loose as it is, there is a vow to "not know."
I really think Bernie Glassman-roshi and his colleagues at ZPO were right on with this.
It seems most of the time, if we watch our minds, we use our mental faculty to sift through information selecting that which supports our view, keeping us in the sanctuary of what we know, and discarding that which challenges this view, forcing us out of our comfortable home.
Thus, we are really not exploring our world, just re-enforcing the four walls of home.
Our zazen practice asks us to notice this.
Once we notice, we must then step into the world again. None of us gets a free pass; no one can just float by without change. We cannot stay in the Zendo forever.
We change: some us change into closed, hard, rocking chairs that only seem to move, others work toward being fluid, open, and flowing.
We all know that water defeats rock in the end.
Be well.