While striving to catch the butterfly of Zen in the net of
reason we must know that the task is hopeless.
Christmas Humphreys.
Christmas Humphreys was a Westerner who did more than any other to bring the wisdom of Buddhism to the west. The difficult concept of Zen is here explained. One cannot use reason to understand Zen, it is beyond the conceptual mind. It is everything that is not the mind. Take away the mind and what you have left is Zen.
Zen is perpetual stillness without the chatter of the conscious mind. It is the ground from which the conscious mind arises, and ultimately will return. All that I have just written regarding the nature of Zen is not true, for even trying to describe Zen one instantly becomes separate from it.
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