Resilience Meditation – That is why the Buddha and Jesus told us the law of cause-and-effect!
Welcome to the Honora Zen Monastery in Switzerland. A place for Resilience Meditation.
Contemplation - Resilience
In the outer perspectives there are differences between sages and ordinary men; tainted and pure, cut off and constant, theoretical and practical, birth and death, moving and still, going and coming, beautiful and ugly, good and bad, and cause and effect.
If you truly describe in detail, there can be ten-thousand different things all of which are unsteady and changeable outer perspectives. We call it deluded mind, because unsteady and changeable outer perspectives of life-and-death are contrasted with the former steady-and-unchangeable-true-mind. The true mind is originally perfected against unsteady and changeable outer perspectives. It does not create any differences. That is why it is called the steady-and-unchangeable-true-mind.
Wisdom
Because the deluded mind does not know various outer perspectives create various thoughts when following the outer perspectives. That is why the Buddha or Jesus told us the law of cause-and-effect; to control the deluded mind. But the true mind does not follow various outer perspectives, and does not create various thoughts. Buddha and Jesus did not say about any other truth; where can cause-and-effect be?
The discriminating function of the true mind is not created by outer perspectives, but if consorts with sublime functioning and because of that, would not adversely affect cause-and-effect.
You must reject all concepts at once. Only then can you smoothly enter into and progress with your practice. Just as clouds in the sky obscure the brightness of the sun, so do conceptions prevent the bright light of your original nature from shining forth.
The more deluded your mind are, the more difficult will be your practice. Thus it is all the more important to find a wise teacher to guide you. One of the principal reasons for relying on such a teacher is in order to overcome pride.
