Re: The Point of Focus
This is one of the great issues with our current understanding. We do grasp onto something we can ponder and relate to, but all too often, we end up miss-pondering and un-relating to. This type of grasping and pondering of things leads us into delusion because we attempt to understand things as though there were an answer. Pondering things like the meaning of life and the space time continuum, we forget to simply experience them. Trees, wind, space, life, these are not problems to be solved; simply Jewels in Indra's Net to be experienced, whether good or bad (though there is no good or bad, only what it is).
Indeed. Zen gives few toys, no mantra, no visualization. Being humans, creative humans at that, we jump at the chance to grasp onto something we can ponder and relate to. Shikantaza, to me, seems like something we can never relate to and yet are all to familiar with.
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