Enjoyed reading this thread. What Kokuu and Daizan say seem to go to it. Hi Tony. My thoughts on this aren't worth a whole lot, but from your recent posts I'd say you're thinking too much about Zen, about sitting, about Buddhism, about Dharma, about enlightenment, about gaining or not, about big spiritual things. My advice would be just do something you enjoy. Maybe go for a walk in the woods or even the city and just go for a walk. See what happens. It's like this: when you go for a walk do you think: "geez, am I walking right? Am I truly enjoying nature? Am I really this nature? Or am I separate from nature? Is nature me? What is that squirrel over there and is that tree a spiritual thing and do I really understand that tree? Do I really get that tree? Do I really understand this walk? What am I doing here, I better stop walking and before I finish this walk, I better figure it out."
I hope you don't do this on a walk. I hope that on a walk you just go on a walk and maybe you say hello to someone you pass and they smile at you or not and maybe the trees are full of leaves and maybe the sky is blue and has some clouds in it and maybe you hear insects and birds and cars going somewhere and a river, maybe there's a river just going where it goes, a little trash near the river, the sound of water over stones, the sound of wind, loving all things, caring for all things.
Gassho
I hope you don't do this on a walk. I hope that on a walk you just go on a walk and maybe you say hello to someone you pass and they smile at you or not and maybe the trees are full of leaves and maybe the sky is blue and has some clouds in it and maybe you hear insects and birds and cars going somewhere and a river, maybe there's a river just going where it goes, a little trash near the river, the sound of water over stones, the sound of wind, loving all things, caring for all things.
Gassho
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