How can I realize the non-thinking?

Answer from Master Kosen

You learned how to think but before that, when you were a baby, you did not know how to think.

Your parents taught you word by word, object by object, from this work you did a complete inventory or so of the real world of the adults, and now this world is a weight for you, so come back to the original thought, the creative thought, which was yours before you learned how to speak.

Zazen is the direct and easy method.

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death and enleightenment

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"me" the Buddha.

Some time ago you answered to my question: Who is there beyond Zen?You answered me: “there is you.” If I am only one illusion, must I understand, "me" the Buddha, the interior Master that I am supposed to discover? (We often have the answer to our questions in the question itself...) Gassho

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