A poem zen says: "After the wind died down I see a flower. For the song of the bird discover the calm of the mountain."
Before something happens in the realm of calm, we do not feel calm, only when something happens in the calm, we find really.
Says a Japanese proverb: "To the moon is the cloud, for the flower is the wind." When we see a part of the moon veiled by a cloud or a tree or a clump of weeds, then I really feel the roundness. But when we clearly see the moon without anything encountered, do not feel the roundness as when it is partially covered by something else.
While doing zazen, you are in a state of complete mental calm, not feel anything. Sit stop. But the calm of meditation will give you strength in life everyday. It is in everyday life, not when you sit in meditation, you will discover the actual value of Zen.
Shunryu Suzuki-roshi, "Zen Mind, Beginners Mind," Conversations on meditation and Zen practice
(The only written evidence of a large Roshi contemporary with the warmth of his humanity, his simplicity and sweetness, the West has been able to communicate in a Western language, the inner meaning of Zen.)
Before something happens in the realm of calm, we do not feel calm, only when something happens in the calm, we find really.
Says a Japanese proverb: "To the moon is the cloud, for the flower is the wind." When we see a part of the moon veiled by a cloud or a tree or a clump of weeds, then I really feel the roundness. But when we clearly see the moon without anything encountered, do not feel the roundness as when it is partially covered by something else.
While doing zazen, you are in a state of complete mental calm, not feel anything. Sit stop. But the calm of meditation will give you strength in life everyday. It is in everyday life, not when you sit in meditation, you will discover the actual value of Zen.
Shunryu Suzuki-roshi, "Zen Mind, Beginners Mind," Conversations on meditation and Zen practice
(The only written evidence of a large Roshi contemporary with the warmth of his humanity, his simplicity and sweetness, the West has been able to communicate in a Western language, the inner meaning of Zen.)
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