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But zen practice, works quite counter intuitively to all that as you would know from your own experience just doing zazen here. So, the act of zazen is take up this position breathe and basically, do nothing.
And then that that scrambled mind, that confused mind, that muddy mind, you can see it. It's like even through one period of meditation you get that sense of dropping out of your head into your body. It's like the sediment is just settling down into your body. And by the end of a meditation period, you usually find your mind is just clearer because that's what occurred.
Now sometimes the muddiness in our life, sometimes it's just mild muddiness. It's just a bit sort of opaque, and not entirely clear. But sometimes there are life circumstances that are really challenging. Do you know in our lives? Do you know around? Um, people close to us dying or ourselves with a serious illness, or whatever, or breakups or whatever. And the emotions are very, very intense. Um, And,
Even though they may be unpleasant emotions and unpleasant experiences, still the best advice from a zen perspective, even if you're in a lot of emotional pain, is somehow you become grounded when you really really, really, accept that pain in your body. Not in your head. But as a physical experience. And even it's unpleasant.
I can ground yourself in that experience because even fear is real. Even sadness is real as an experience. You experience it here and stay with it. Something Something shoots, I had a mild mild version of that. Um, last week was something I was experiencing And, Took my own advice.
And and as soon as I really came in, yes this could really come into the emotion here, like really experience at 100 something shifted Didn't make it go away. But um, it's like this is my experience right now. So turn up to Completely.
To take this more out of A meditation practice point of view in into Insight. Because of the whole point of practicing things to cultivate Insight, Um, the people can Intellectualize it too much. Will glorify it too much. It is in itself is just Clarity.
And so when when your mind is clear, And you're not caught up with thinking and Concepts all the time, then you just live your life through your senses. You just see what you see hear what you hear. It's not what you smell. And if you think I'm just making this up, this is what the Buddha said. He said this as well. I've reminded you in another talk. That a philosopher came to him and he was quite Sincere, man. He said, can you just tell me the nuts and bolts of what your practice is? And that's what the the Buddha said to me. When you see just see when you hear just here, When you walk, just walk. And so, Inside experiences. When they, when they occur. Are just a really it's like, it's a very, very Vivid, clear experience of reality that's
And it's a really clear experience of reality where you're not separate anymore you and the reality are one thing. But it's really, really clean.
And the other thing about it, To be clear about. That doesn't explain anything.
Same practice doesn't explain anything because when you get into explanation, You get into thoughts and ideas, but that's not the experience of
If you're at a cliff looking over the ocean, You just see the ocean. Just say goodbye. It's coming and going. You look up in the sky and you just see the clouds come going. You look inside yourself and you just say the thoughts, coming and going and the emotions coming and gone. And there's nothing outside of it. It doesn't need anything extra outside of
Um, To use the same expression, there's no need to put legs on a snake. And it's like, it's just a snow. No need to add Frost to snow.
Smells just snow.
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The practice is about settling into the body, so the Mind clears and the inside is an extension thing.
Um, So, you just have an uncluttered.
Non-Conceptual.
Um, full.
Even experience of momentary life.
So, as we practice, Um, keep remembering to not Hans Woods. Don't get to do something.
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