The zen time piece by now and zen12/27/2023 The student said, “How can I understand the Absolute?” Soen-sa said, “People desire money, fame, sex, food, and rest. The student said, “How can practicing Zen make world peace?” If all the people in the world understood themselves, they would attain the Absolute. That is why there is fighting among ourselves. Not understanding yourself is not understanding the truth. So the whole world is like the blind men fighting among themselves. Having name and form is having opposites. Energy, mind, God, and matter are all name and form. You are this stick this stick is you.” Continue Reading The substance of this Zen stick and your own substance are the same. Your don’t know mind cuts off all thinking. If you are not thinking and have no attachment to name and form, then all substance is one. Names and forms are made by your thinking. Their names and their forms are different, but their substance is the same. But all these opposites are mutual, because they are made from the same substance. The universe is organized into pairs of opposites: light and darkness, man and woman, sound and silence, good and bad. “In the same way, all things in the universe – the sun, the moon, the stars, mountains, rivers, people, and so forth – have different names and forms, but they are all made from the same substance. They all have different names and forms, but they are all made from the same dough, and they all taste the same. Soen-sa said, “In a cookie factory, different cookies are baked in the shape of animals, cars, people, and airplanes. “What do you understand about me? Teach me.” Soen-sa said, “This don’t know mind is you. Soen-sa held his Zen stick above his head and said, “Do you understand?” One day a student from Chicago came to the Providence Zen Center and asked Seung Sahn Soen-Sa, “What is Zen?”
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