Some meditation promises amazing stuff like this … A secret practice developed by Aboriginal tribes almost 40,000 years ago, will take you to states of extremely deep and serene meditation … the use of vibrational sound which helped them to access higher dimensions of reality…dimensions not seen, heard or touched in the normal waking state,…

“Sweep away thoughts!” means one must do zazen. Once thoughts are quieted,the Original Face appears. Thoughts can be compared to clouds. When clouds vanish, the moon appears.The moon of suchness is the Original Face. — Master Daito Kokushi (1282-1337) Master Dogen said … Abandon all involvements. Give the myriad things a rest. Do not think…

Grab a broom, sweep out the room that is your mind. Abandon all involvements. Give the myriad things a rest. Do not think of good and bad. Do not care about right and wrong. Stop the driving movement of mind, will, consciousness. Cease intellectual consideration through images, thoughts, and reflections. [Nishijima] Put aside all involvements…

Is Zen a ‘religion’? A ‘philosophy’? Something quite else? I don’t think about these questions much in my life. I just live life. Does ‘God’ exist? Not exist? Whose ‘God’? I don’t think about these questions much in my life. I just live life. Is there ‘Life-after-Death’? ‘Reincarnation’? ‘Nothing’? I don’t think about these questions…

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