Monday, August 05, 2019

The Animal and Zen



The animal is the ride, and it's a good ride, if you are born in the right place at the right time. But the animal is a provisional truth. How is one to call to those born into this barnyard to realize themselves at more fundamental level of existence.

Hans Christian Anderson in his simple parable "The Ugly Duckling" relates the evolution of those for whom realization is inevitable in wonderfully succinct terms, but I don't know of a nuts-and-bolts how-to guide for the mystified beginner.

Those who "see" are freaks from earliest childhood and will suffer the abysmal self doubt made inevitable because they are surrounded by the bizarrely self-confident blind.

Zen (the Zen of the patriarchs, not the Zen of religionists) is the only system I have found that leads to the wellspring of being.


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