https://youtube/watch?v=jyVAl4leK6g Mæli með því að fara út af Facebook og horfa á þetta video. Now, you might say “I can understand intellectually, I can understand the _idea_ that I only seem to be an agent, a source of action, and that things only seem to be separate from each other, but are actually interconnected. But does this make me _feel_ any different inside? Well, no I don’t think it really does. To understand it fully I would like to change the way I feel.” Here comes the crucial point in the understanding of zen. On the one hand, if you set out to change the way you feel, that might be called a discipline. On the other hand, if you decide simply to accept the way you feel, and not try to change your inner feelings at all, that might be called ‘letting things alone’. But here’s the point. If you have understood clearly, that you as a separate will, or a separate ego, are a fiction, then on the one hand you can’t change it and on the other hand you can’t do nothing about it. Because there is no agent, no separate doer, either to do something about it or to do nothing about it. So this situation seems, as it were, paralyzing. If you can’t ‘do’ and if you can’t ‘don’t’, what is going to happen? But the point of this is, is that this paralysis is the realization of the unreality of the individual agent. So, what happens? From this point on, one ceases to take oneself seriously.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 01:37:32 +0000
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