Song of the Treasure Mirror Samadhi (Zen & Zazen 105), December 2nd 2024

[@ninahubert8784]

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[@drachenlachen]

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[@Perltaucher]

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[@ovidiustoica5055]

Muho, is allowing the pain to swallow you up (letting go, dying on the cushion) an application of Buddha's "second arrow of suffering" principle ? That is, if you can actually keep your self from reacting against suffering (if you behave as if there is nothing whatsoever that you can do about it) you do get rid of a certain content in the suffering itself. If you think that "there is nothing to do about it" then pain tends to disappear/or to weaken. And viceversa, the pain stays, or even gets stronger exactly because you react to it, and you react to it because you think that you can do something to make it disappear, because you can react to cope with it, to deal with it (you can move, clench your teeth, hold your breath, get up and swallow a pill, and so on). The self which is active "I can do/I can act" keeps the pain active, keenly present as "unendurable" pain in consciousness, until you do indeed that pain-relieving action (say you change your uncomortable body position, or swallow a pill). On the other hand, the no-self, the non-acting/dissolved/"dead on the cushion"/ self leads to the pain disappearing by itself because "there is nothing I can do, or there is nothing that I will do, about it". The key here is that what is impossible is not wanted, and if you don't want the pain to disappear then (!) it disappears because what it is not wanted to disappear can no be said to be a "pain". The meaning of pain (i.e., what I can do to make it disappear) is gone, and with it the pain, the pain now becomes 'nothing' (now it means 'nothing at all', no meaning).

[@MuhoZen]

Sounds right.

[@hansburch3700]

Im richtigen Zen findest Du die tiefsten Ursachen für jedes Problem, dann findest Du Lösungen dafür und für alle Beteiligten. Alles andere verschlimmert die Situation nur!

[@ovidiustoica5055]

@@MuhoZen Thanks !