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‘Non-Thinking’ … the Balanced Mind … not to be found by listening to words and descriptions (especially the words of a foolish nut who talks to fruit) …

… Actually, the True Taste comes by tasting, one experiences Balanced Mind by experience, in Zazen and in all daily life.

You know when knowing, you see when seeing … and, just as clearly, you can know that something is missing, imbalanced, over-thinking, when Non-Thinking is not there, lost, when you cross the fine line to imbalance, attachment, clutching, need, anger, fear, regret … all in the chain of suffering.

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Like the training of the archaeologist’s eye, our Zazen Practice lets us know where to spot the outlines, the traces, where to find treasure … something not obvious to an untrained eye. By doing it (or, rather, by non-doing that for which nothing need be done) we find something hidden-yet-always-right-underfoot.

Sitting in balance in the mountain-still state, “Think the concrete state of not thinking.” “How can the state of not thinking be thought?” “It is different from thinking.” This is the secret of sitting-Zen. [NISHIJIMA]

… settle into steady, immovable sitting. Think of not thinking. Not thinking-what kind of thinking is that? Nonthinking. This is the essential art of zazen. [SZTP]