"Indifferent," "Letting Be," "Detached," "Non-Attached"

[Houzan]

Thank you, Jundo
Being “indifferent” is to discriminate. In zazen we sit with our big mind, free from discrimination, where “everything we encounter is ourselves”.

Gassho, Hōzan
Satlah

[Brett]

The language is the only tool that we have to transmit knowledge from person to person. So, how can someone transmit something that cannot be transmitted by words?

This often happens to me, specially in this forum. I would like to make comments but I do not find words to say what I would say and it is not lack of vocabulary.

It is basically try describe things like a feeling of pain , you can try to use words, sayings or even metaphors but never will be exactly what you really feel. Sometimes a simple Gassho seems enough to me.

This also happens to me Antonio. I often feel all I am doing when responding is relaying my personal stream of consciousness which I am actively trying to not do. I find that often when I read something I just wrote is read back I think “that’s not what I mean!” And then I find myself thinking of ways to correct it. This is sometimes successful, but often not successful at all.

The only solution I have found is to try and stick to a summary of a few sentences of my thoughts which helps me to distill what I wish to say. Require yourself to say what you want in as few words may help, that’s been my goal.

st/lah
gassho
brett