What zazen about?

[Mornings Son]

Zazen isn't about blissing out or going into an alpha-wave trance. It's about facing who and what you really are, in every goddamn moment.
And you aren't bliss, I tell you that right now.
You are a mess.
We all are.

Brad Warner

[Whatman]

Brad Warner, i sent him an email once, hes pretty deep. I read four of his books, the way he explains zazen; totally bashing..

[glance left]

When I was a kid, I remember taking a single word...and then saying that word over and over and over and over and over again...until the meaning/familiarity of the word dissolved, leaving behind a strange construct of sounds....nothing more. Abstract. Watching "meaning" dissolve like that...left a strange impression on me.

Zazen...I think.....maybe is similar in practice.....the practice of focusing silent awareness on one's own sense of self...over and over and over and over and over again..until the self melts away right before ones very eyes....leaving the stark, unshakable truth....pure, naked awareness.

[Mornings Son]

That practice you used as child. It seems like you are familiar with koan training from former life or something? Ally?
Through away body and mind - as it is said in Zen about zazen practice )))))))

[Guest]