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I have been practicing Zen for 20 years with schizophrenia and now have cancer. My life has suffered many extremes and I am not in old age. How do I fully collapse the selfview?
March 27, 2021, 8:29 pm
We all have received a body, emotions and mind. Yet the body and
emotions is something gathered from the outside. These tools are not equal to
all. Some really struggle with what they have received. It can be compared to
the clothes we wear, yet your true being is not affected by this. We simply do
have different situations and thus make different experiences with this. We
need to see it in this way that we have received these tools so that we may
awaken to this huge mind of ours, which fills the whole universe. And how to go
about this? Do not look away from reality which is right in front of us,
because we add on thoughts to our experience and these thoughts is that which create
confusion. To be in the present is called samadhi.
For you to learn to be in this present moment, you can use a mantra, you
can recite the name of the Buddha. There was a Zen master Honen Shonin who
would recite the name of the Buddha 600000 times a day. From morning until
night, from night until morning, people of training recite MU. This mind which
does not think about things, it does not die since it was never born. That is
how truth is. Please do work hard so that you may sense this true mind of
yours.