The framework around zazen can be both considered completely useless and part of the artifice of giving credibility to a practice, intended for a group of more or less external people, just as it can be perceived as absolutely fundamental in that it each time sculpts the disposition favorable to the seriousness that the task of observing the mind requires.
Notes & Silence 
By « framework, » I presume you mean practices or rituals.
I suspect their quality is dependent on the practitioner.
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Yes this is what I meant : the context + sequences of practices.
The more I practice, the more I realise that, to use the same proverbial template which popped up recently in our interactions.
« The power of the rituals are in in the consciousness of the beholder »…
Oh, by the way (yes, by the way, ..) did you know Bergson was fascinated with Berkeley’s work… ?
I have been made aware of his approach to what he names « sympathy »…
(this is what AI can gather on this notion : For Henri Bergson, sympathy is the essential methodological mechanism of intuition, defined as the intellectual effort to transport oneself into the interior of an object to coincide with its unique, inexpressible reality.
Internal Access: Unlike analysis, which approaches an object from the outside using symbols and pre-existing concepts, sympathy provides absolute knowledge by entering the thing itself.
Methodological Distinction: While often used interchangeably with intuition, sympathy specifically refers to the capacity to reach realities outside the self (such as matter, life, or other people) by perceiving their inner sense in duration.
Biological and Ethical Scope: Bergson extends sympathy beyond philosophy to biology, describing it as the direct knowledge parasites have of their prey, and to ethics, where it evolves into a moral feeling that progresses from pity to a universal love for all life. )
I don’t know if I should add quotation marks to honour some intellectual property when the speaker is non human and itself infringing intellectual property without any restraint.
This is a legal concern beyong my meager capacities.
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I’m wondering if there is a connection between that concept of sympathy and morphic resonance…
I’ll see if I get any more insight whilst destroying the rest of the dead bits of an old bush.
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I assume this last sentence is an idiom…unless you actually are referring to gardening…
Please don’t beat around it for too long.
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Literal. I’ve spent all day wrestling with a pyracantha, and have the wounds to prove it.
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