Meditation Week – October – Truth has nothing to do with knowing or not knowing. Drop the mind of wishing to be awakened!
Welcome to the meditation week in October at the Honora zen monastery in Switzerland.
Contemplation - Meditation October
Truth has nothing to do with knowing or not knowing. Drop the mind of wishing to be awakened, caused from confusion. Just listen carefully to what I am about to speak:
Each and every truth is like a dream, and, like and apparition; therefore deluded mind is originally tranquil and unexhaustable outer perspective is originally emtpy. (Pojo)
If enlightenment is sudden in its nature, why do we have to cultivate gradually, or, if cultivation is the gradual cultivation in its nature, how can we talk about sudden enlightenment? It is called sudden enlightenment; for, when the ordinary being was confused; four elements were believed as body, and delusion was believed as mind. Without understanding that the self-nature is the truth-body and without understanding that the divinely self-gnostic perception is the truth, you travel around to seek the Truth outside the mind.
But by suddenly encountering the Logos, who can show the right door, in a flash you would turn your mind and see original self-nature: for, this self-nature itself does not have bewilderment. It is originally fulfilled. This is nothing different from all the Patriarchs; hence it is called sudden enlightenment.
It is called gradual Cultivation for, even though it is understood that original self-nature is not different from Buddha and Jesus, habitual tendencies from beginningless beginning cannot be easily dropped right away.
That is the reason to cultivate after the enlightenment, to refine and re-examine until able to conceive the divine embryo; doing this for a long time, one might become a sage. it is as if a new born baby had come with all the organs already fulfilled, complete and normal; still it is not fully developed yet, and will require a long period of time to mature. (Zen Patriarch Pojo)
Meditation Center
The Honora Zen Monastery is a rustic and small meditation center in Switzerland. Here you can find more information and register for the monthly meditation weeks.
