Zazen teaches me that whatever thought we invite into us, the energy we devote to turning it over and over to investigate its flaws and secrets, will be wasted because our understanding can only be minimal.
It is by default extremely fragmentary, and we consider the angle from which it presents itself to us sufficient to generate the missing contours. Which is illusory.
We will never achieve, through thoughts, the understanding of a phenomenon, its faithful perception, if it exists and can be achieved. From the deepest part of our mind, let us see that none of the thoughts that cross our minds or that we summon are truly worth dwelling on.
The curtain they create between us and life is not worth investigating beyond understanding this uselessness.
And this uselessness cannot be initiated by thought.
Leave that place.
Notes & Silence 