Zen
Zentherapy releases the natural form of the body from the aberrations caused by physical, chemical, psychological and spiritual traumas.
It is the goal of Zentherapy for both the practitioner and the client to become as a child: free of fear, hate, greed and pain.
Zen therapy recognizes that from birth to death, life is flow of energy.
Throughout the Zentherapy trainings, special emphasis is placed upon the self development of the practitioner and the development of the client.
Technique of practice
The method of practicing Patriarch Zen is as follows:
1) Choose from the list below a question which is most incomprehensible to you. They are koans, or unanswerable questions, designed to lead the mind into the not-knowing state.
Here are five sample questions:
Before heaven and earth were created, what was I?
All things return to the One, where does the One return?
Before my parents were not born, what was my original face?
From where does birth come, to where does death return?
It is not Mind, not Buddha, not things, what is it?
Having chosen a koan, stay with it throughout the practice; do not shift from question to question.
2) Silently ask the question in the mind. Since the question is unanswerable, the mind is forced into a state of "don't know" or "not-knowing". This "not-knowing" state in Zen is called "doubt". Doubt is necessary in zen meditation. It acts as an automatic broom sweeping away the illusory knowledge (cognition, thinking, and memorization) which blocks our real mind. Without doubt there is no enlightenment. Doubt is the seed, enlightenment is the fruit. So doubt, or state of not-knowing, is the essence of zen meditation.
3) Maintain this state of doubt by re-asking the question and looking at the "don't-know" state steadily and incessantly. Asking and looking must be done simultaneously to raise and keep the state of doubt. Otherwise, the asking will be mere repetition without doubt. Keep the doubts going lightly and continuously like running a long fine thread. Also, don't try to answer the question because the purpose of asking a koan is to evoke doubt.
4) The goal is to maintain the state of doubt continuously day and night. The hua-tou will be reached when doubt runs uninterrupted for 24 hours through sleep and while awake. Therefore, the meditation should be practiced during all activities. It does not require a sitting down position. However, for beginners, do not practice while driving or doing mental work. The state of not-knowing in zen differs from the lack of knowledge associated with stupidity, mental disease, lethargy or unconsciousness. Therefore, it does not hinder the practitioner from functioning normally in daily life.![]()
Citations
To Enlightenment,
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