I already noted that I don't consider the human personality as a mixture of male and the female substance, as Weininger does. But some Buddhists also believe that to become a Buddha, a men needs to get in touch with his female aspect, a woman with her male. OK, but in any case I don't think that the correct practice should make you homosexual: the trick is to integrate the components properly. And if you meditate by my method, everything fall into place: then you cannot say that you're a man in the classical sense if only because you lose the desire to dominate and no longer worry about your status; on the other hand, you're also not a woman if only because you don't tempt anyone, don't let anyone inside you, and become completely indifferent to what others think of you.

I don't want you to get the impression, from what I wrote, that I see the human personality as a mixture of male and the female substance, as Weininger does. Instead I prefer to think of it as the result of two conflicting desires: the desire to deny the environment (which approximately corresponds to Freud's ego) and the desire to merge with it (which corresponds to id and super-ego.) In particular, the conflict between ego and super-ego is, in other words, the conflict between individual and collective consciousness.

I prefer to talk about bonds, not attachments

It seems that everyone already understands that being attached to things is wrong. But somehow when it comes to attachments to people, especially our relatives and friends, even Buddhists don't dare to call things by their proper names. Therefore, to be clear, I will use the terms 'ties', 'bonds',  instead of 'attachment' whenever possible.

One Wonderful Technique

I continue describing the technique that will allow you to handle your mental problems - if you think you don't have any, perhaps you don't need this practice and this post is a reminder that for that you should already be sufficiently prepared. It's also about why the correct Zen practice is better than psychoanalysis, and in the end, I'll outline in general terms how works the very process of understanding, which would be just pointless philosophizing if in the following posts I weren't be going to give concrete practical recommendations how to have such an experience.

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