Zen as Technology

Our minds are us, but we are not our minds. The mind is a creation; a construction built of representations; a feed-back loop in the resonance of Awareness.

One remarkable benefit of meditation is that meditation creates a circumstance in which Awareness discovers that mind is a subordinate apparatus, and not a proper seat of identity.

Yogic practices of meditation had been around for thousands of years. But it was the unique encounter of these yogic practices with Chinese esoteric pragmatism that engendered Zen. And Zen is a radically effective technology of enlightenment. And this "enlightenment" is nothing less than Awareness awakening to the tyranny of mind which is the normal state of creature-hood.  

The Way It Is

The biological realm, in all its wrinkles and writhes, is the armature for the emergence of Awareness. Every creature from the paramecium to the anthropoid ape is a thread in the scintillating fabric of Awareness aglow on the surface of the Earth. In its lust for life Awareness presses into every possible avenue of existence, and each life form contributes its vibrational exuberance to the chord of Being struck here on Earth. There is nothing mystical about this. This is simply the way it is.