Through my Zen practice I get to observe my beliefs, and have found myself spontaneously coming to a realization of how I “create” everybody else who is in my life, or who comes into my life.

There are moments when the fact that I recognize that they are part of me is very vivid and profound. This I take to be the Zen “at-one-ness” that in my zazen I aspire to realize. But these moments disappear, and as sorry as I am to see them go, I recognize that I need to be drawn back into my “believing ego-mind” and continue to learn that elusive art of transcendence over and over again, until such time as I become totally transcendent… enlightened. 

Seeking for this state of awareness however, is a desire and I know desiring it will not bring it, because we cannot seek what we already are, or travel to a place at which we already exist.

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3 Responses

1. Rizal Affif Says:
   February 14th, 2010 at 11:03 am

   You’ve got a point there.

   Enlightenment is not about achieving something though. It’s merely transcendence.

   It’s about constant transcendence.

   Good kick!

2. Charlotte Rains Dixon Says:
   February 16th, 2010 at 3:06 pm

   I spend too much time trying to change my beliefs, instead of accepting them, I think.

3. admin Says:
   February 17th, 2010 at 7:23 am

   The wonderful thing about acceptance is that it doesn’t take any time. We are after all, just like mirrors - or the space in which our life unfolds. Resistance to what is so, consists of trying to change beliefs and that seems to take up far more time!… Thank for posting Charlotte.

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