Zen

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Not too close, not too far, there is a natural distance between two persons, two things, two fenomons. We can find this natural distance at the same way we find a correct distance between us and the fire,if we stay too close from fire it burn us, if we stand too far we feel cold. We should neitheir stand too close from people, from the fenomens of the life, nor too far. Everybody is different, it explain why Master Dogen said '' The experiment of the practice of zazen it is to understand oneself ''in order to understand the world, the people around oneself, in order to find the right distance, the natural one, the most human attitude, the most kind, at the equal distance between indifference and fanatism for exemple. The causes of lot of troubles come from the non- respect or from the ignorance of those natural distance, it come from a lack of attention, of concentration from our side. Therefore it is something that we can correct by ourself , that we can make better by ourselves. The practice of zen attitude consist to correct onself in order to find at every instant the natural distance between us and the other, between us and the fenomenon, because what we remember long time after are only the manners.