Ak'bal Equinox

My practice of Zen brings me joy and calm, it does not build in me a fire with which I desire to debate others.

The Zen Way is about pointing to the Truth in a direct and powerful manner, so that there is no doubt left in the practitioner about the true nature of the highest ground of being and the deepest revelation of the true nature of the self.

This is the ideal of Zen practice, and while we may engage in friendly "Dharma battle", or in the silence of drinking tea, its purpose is in pointing to the Way. Debates over doctrines, definitions, and the declaration of thesis are almost unheard of, unless it is to dispel them for the higher knowing of truth ness.

Unfortunately, in contemporary times, our society’s nomenclature has taken up the word “Zen”, and too often it has no connection to the true ideals and thrust of its intent.

I know, and hope, that people continue to not confuse the phony hype of the me-too-ers who seek recognition and acceptability of their ideas under the marketing guise of the word “Zen”; a Trojan Horse for benighted ideals and goals.

Our good fortune is to know sense from nonsense, and truth from agenda.