Frankly speaking…..

A friend of mine asked me can you explain Zen.

He again asked me, ‘Do you know what Zen is? How one can practice the Zen meditation.’ I kept mum. I simply can’t explain. This is the difficulty with Zen. 

One can narrate many stories of Zen masters, apparently stories may look absurd, sometimes meaningless but they are said to explain Zen. Whatever the Zen master many say or ask his disciple to explain is utter non sense.

You can explain philosophy but not meditation. You can explain knowledge but not enlightenment.

I have seen many Gurus’ or so called Masters they give discourse on scriptures. They talk on Upanishadas, Gita , Shivism and trantra and make  the people more confused than before. These are learned, intellectual giants but they fall short to be spiritual masters in true sense.

One may call them professors of Upanishada, shivism or religious scriptures’/books. They are like athletes’ they may top in individual performance, but what’s the use for the society. They may train you to become another athlete. With due respect to these intellectual giants, my sense is that the true masters are beyond any ism.

True Master does not give you anything to learn, he proposes course of unlearning what so ever you have learned till date.  Masters prepares you to free the mind from the conditions. He cleans the mind from unwanted dust, the dogmas.

True master never asks for obedience if somebody asks for obedience please escape from these dangerous masters or gurus. They are in search of followers and not the disciples.

But in presence of spiritual master, subtle obedience, a subtle discipline is created without any manipulation .I have still to come across such a genuine master, they are rarest of rare.

Zen wants you to be present totally. No matter who are you, what you do, whether you are thief and you are going to steal, if you get absorbed in it, you are totally with stealing you are in meditation. For zen all that matter is totality, utter concentration, absorbed, lost dunked into it.

It can be any activity; meditation is not averse to any activity. Zen has no condemnation. It is the same logic of tantric, if you are indulge in sex, you have to be totally absorbed, lost dunked in to it, this transforms it  to meditation. When you are utterly lost, ego disappears.

Our mind is full of thoughts, memories, desires, identifications, opinions, likes dislikes; I am body, I am mind, I am intellect. When this garbage is thrown you simply remain choice less awareness:

this j krishnamoorty called freedom, liberation.

Emptiness means void. It has neither colors nor form. It has no pleasure or pain. It is you think you suffer, you have never suffered and you have never enjoyed. This reminds me of Rene Descartes famous sentence “Cogito ergo sum”. I think therefore I exist. Means if I plainly do not think, then I do not exist.

You need to be aware of, you are that choice less awareness: You need not go anywhere; nothing is to be achieved nothing is to be practiced.

There are many things if you were with me, you must have received, without being said.

Sometimes, leisurely I will talk with you Zen.

 Ajeet Bhide