what do you experience during Zazen?

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  • Martin
    Member
    • Jun 2007
    • 216
    #16
    Re: what do you experience during Zazen?

    It varies. Sometimes there's anxiety, worry, planning for the future or going over the past. Often there's a voice in my head making imaginary speaches to people who aren't really there about how well I did this or why I did that or why they should do or have done the other, and sometimes it just talks about how well I'm sitting zazen. Somtimes, I just experience the room I'm sitting in. Sometimes the room just experiences me. Like I say, it varies and on the whole I'm ok with that.

    Gassho

    Martin

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      • Aswini
        Member
        • Apr 2008
        • 108
        #17
        Re: what do you experience during Zazen?

        It varies. Sometimes there's anxiety, worry, planning for the future or going over the past. Often there's a voice in my head making imaginary speaches to people who aren't really there about how well I did this or why I did that or why they should do or have done the other, and sometimes it just talks about how well I'm sitting zazen. Somtimes, I just experience the room I'm sitting in. Sometimes the room just experiences me. Like I say, it varies and on the whole I'm ok with that.

        Gassho

        Martin
        Same with me.

        Other times I feel I get to glimpse how "I" operate, my feelings and just what this whole universe is all about. Other times still my mind is anxious and constantly making crazy statements defending "me" and my position (like last night).

        Mettha.

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          • Dojin
            Member
            • May 2008
            • 562
            #18
            Re: what do you experience during Zazen?

            i noticed that all the answers are so different yet are actually all the same...
            i guess it doesnt matter what you feel or experience, since it is all the same. you fell what you feel and it is just that....
            there is no difference between everything and nothing and anything at all
            I gained nothing at all from supreme enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called supreme enlightenment
            - the Buddha

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              • will
                Member
                • Jun 2007
                • 2331
                #19
                Re: what do you experience during Zazen?

                The thing is Zen. Is it "YOU" that is experiencing it?

                Gassho Will
                [size=85:z6oilzbt]
                To save all sentient beings, though beings are numberless.
                To penetrate reality, though reality is boundless.
                To transform all delusion, though delusions are immeasurable.
                To attain the enlightened way, a way non-attainable.
                [/size:z6oilzbt]

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                  • Dojin
                    Member
                    • May 2008
                    • 562
                    #20
                    Re: what do you experience during Zazen?

                    Originally posted by will
                    The thing is Zen. Is it "YOU" that is experiencing it?

                    Gassho Will

                    good question

                    I dont know!
                    I gained nothing at all from supreme enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called supreme enlightenment
                    - the Buddha

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                      • will
                        Member
                        • Jun 2007
                        • 2331
                        #21
                        Re: what do you experience during Zazen?

                        [size=85:z6oilzbt]
                        To save all sentient beings, though beings are numberless.
                        To penetrate reality, though reality is boundless.
                        To transform all delusion, though delusions are immeasurable.
                        To attain the enlightened way, a way non-attainable.
                        [/size:z6oilzbt]

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                          • Keishin
                            Member
                            • Jun 2007
                            • 471
                            #22
                            Re: what do you experience during Zazen?

                            I don't know if this is helpful, ultimately.
                            I think it's like kids asking around about what sex is like.
                            There is the question am I 'doing it right.' There is curiosity.
                            Yes, I can share descriptions of my different experiences, but we can never really know another's experience and their experience really doesn't mean anything with regard to my own.
                            It's a phase: this comparison stuff, not to worry, it will pass.
                            Is it helpful? So is sitting with questions unasked. So is sitting with questions the answers to which make no sense.
                            There just is no point in comparing any part of your life with anyone else's.
                            That doesn't stop us!

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