ZEN — LOOK FOR NOTHING — OBSERVE EVERYTHING AND NOTHING

We all have experienced finding what we look for, and not knowing what we overlooked. Zen is conscious observation of what if anything comes to mind without being sought. It is seeing and letting go. If we see or not and think nothing, that is good. If we see or think something, that is good, but we do not dwell upon it. We do not seek. We do not work. We do not judge. We merely be.

At first it seems like effort. Later it is nothing. Nothing is elusive. Nothing is refreshing, cleansing, easy.

Most meditation is contemplation, thinking on a subject. This is good. Zen is better.

The Western mind is consciously active, seeking. The Eastern mind lets it be. The Western mind is focused, the Eastern is unfocused. The Western mind is specific, the Eastern is general.

The Western mind clings to what it thinks it knows. The Eastern clings to nothing and learns and lets go. The Western gets bored, the Eastern is stimulated.

Creativity is new, remembering is old. Western is fearful of not knowing, Eastern is excited. Knowing seeks nothing, unknowing seeks all.

Zen is on the other side of thinking.

Zen is nothing and everything.

This writing is not Zen, it is about Zen. Zen does not think or write. It is and is not.

Zen is clarity. Thinking is confusion. Thinking believes it knows when it does not. Zen does not know. It is and…