The Main Obstacle

I already wrote that there is also one more thing that I can't disregard anymore since this can hamper your practice. Sometimes you find that it's very difficult to perceive things as they are - truth seems clouded - why is this so, and what can be done in this case? Strangely enough, this can be not only your fault: I won't reveal a secret if I recall that people tend to mislead each other. At a certain stage, your practice should become more versatile, and the question should be put this way: what aspects of the human personality hinder objective perception? In other words, what tends to deceive, and what to be deceived? The technique that I start describing will eventually allow you to understand people, yourself, and even how the very process of understanding works.

When I began practicing Zen (I was 30 then), I tried to achieve objective perception by seeing the world as if I'd been dead; for me, unfortunately, this wasn't enough: there still were people that could mislead me - I believed those masks they were wearing - but you can't become enlightened until everything becomes understandable, your particular case, so I learned to understand people. In a few

A topic for meditation

To control things, we must abandon them (or, at least, be able to abandon.) Otherwise, they control us.

 

I promised you that as I improved my English, I would edit my posts

I promised you that as I improved my English, I would edit my posts. These three are already ready, I think they look much better now:

Perception of Time During Zazen 

http://0zen1.blogspot.fr/2017/01/the-perception-of-time-doing-zazen.html

The Walking Zazen: The Main Trick - Concentrating on the Outer World

http://0zen1.blogspot.fr/2016/03/the-main-trick-walking-zazen_22.html

The Walking Zazen

http://0zen1.blogspot.fr/2016/03/the-walking-zazen.html

Zen Intuition

At the beginning of Zen training, you tried to be just rational - this was necessary to ensure objective perception - but after that, this sense of reality you acquired during the practice, mu, became your new intuition. 

Zen intuition can be considered twofold: first, it's the ability to perceive a situation as a whole; and, secondly, the ability to anticipate the future. In fact, these are two sides of the same coin: if you're perceiving a situation as a whole, every present moment is coming for you from the future, and vice versa. The practice described in this blog just such a perception develops.

The ability to perceive a situation as a whole, first of all, allows you to highlight the essence of the information you're receiving; it also gives you acumen and the ability to distinguish any attempt to manipulate you.