There is a freedom in Zen that can frighten certain profiles of practitioners.
When they are confronted with such a level of spiritual maturity without having the autonomy necessary to truly experience it, they find themselves, owing to a pendulum swing, projected towards the dual polarity.
It is not necessary for them to leave the framework of the practice of Zen… since within it, this tendency is represented and can thus welcome such researchers with their fingers burnt.
Frightened by so much freedom, it is then with the body of teachings, the rituals and the cultural aspects that they will enter into relation and in relation to which they will place themselves as dependent children, thus negotiating, through the different kinds of homage that they pay, catering and accommodation.
The time for them to discover their adult freedom,
to even leave their approach to spirituality and get back on the path.
©FJ March 2024
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Notes & Silence 
Freedom is so strange a concept. Perhaps, by rendering it a concept, it becomes defined, bound, « not free. » Can freedom and fear co-exist? I doubt it. Can a practice have no structure? I doubt it. Who, then, is free?
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You’re right ..a frightening freedom can only be the anti chamber of genuine freedom.
I often heard Thant fear was the perfect antonym to love
Which, mathematically, would make love and freedom synonymous (?)
‘No structure’ is a practice.
Structuring is a pattern of suffering.
Often, the result of the agitating (__ed) self.
The mind is free
In its deepest expression.
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