Friday, June 25, 2010

What is Zen?

Answer: Who wants to know?

Q: The one who perceives.

A: There is no entity which perceives (or rather, he/she is merely a concept of convenience). Awareness neither exists nor does not exist, and the 'self' is merely one of 10,000 objects which are all equally unreal.

Q: HAHA. Yeah right.

A: What is aware of the one that comes in the morning and leaves at night? What knows that? It cannot be an entity - for it is aware of both 'entity' and 'no entity'. Otherwise how can the 'entity' know its own disappearance? Likewise, the character in the dream is realized to be false, unreal, and not separate from other dream objects.

Every day it is witnessed that the I is unreal.

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