Emptiness/Suchness

[Jundo]

I agree Jundo, unfortunately my mind understands things through defining and quantifying them, though I aim to be unattached to them as best as I can.

How can one best quell the mind's craving to know, define and catagorise our experience? I imagine it is to let go and just sit

Gassho

Ryan

Sat Today

I think so.

Do you taste the creamy ice cream or mostly ponder the nature of dairy products and sweetness? Make love or spend the whole time thinking about biology? Dive into the sea and become immersed, or sit in a chair and philosophize about it?

A little thinking is good, and a few names ... vanilla, cream, sugar, sweetness, love, sea ... but not too much analysis and categorizing to experience.

Gassho, J

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[Kyonin]

Hi Ryan,

Reading is okay. Emptiness and thusness are concepts that are just there. No matter how much you want to intellectualize them, you'll only get to understand when you drop the words and mind constructions and sit zazen.

In my humble experience, sitting puts me right in the middle of it all, as part of it. Emptiness and thusness are only words we created to name stuff that is bigger than us, but that we are only particles of.

Or something like that.

Gassho,

Kyonin
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[Ryan379]

Thank you everyone, I'll do my best to let go of words and concepts and taste the ice cream instead of thinking about it and putting it into boxes

Deep bows

Ryan

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