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.
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