<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Yoshizen&#039;s Blog]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://yoshizen.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[yoshizen]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://yoshizen.wordpress.com/author/yoshizen/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[How to reach  ZEN MIND&nbsp;?]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p><strong><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>Someone</strong></span></strong><strong><span style="color:#000080;"> asked me “ Hey Yoshizen, I read your [Will-power] post and understand what </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#000080;">ZEN MIND is,  &#8212;&#8211; the question is HOW to reach there ?</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color:#333333;">Well, this is the question worth one&#8217;s life. </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#333333;">It costed Master Bodhidharma who started the practice of ZEN,  for his 9 years sitting, and costed me just</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#333333;"> to have a glimmer of idea, 3 years Disco Dancing.   😀    And yet another 20 odd years more of experiments. </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#333333;">And I&#8217;ve written many times before, but repeat it here referring the last post. </span><strong></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#000080;"> &gt; &gt; Buddhist has completely different psyche —– there was no will at all,  hence those </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#ffffff;">—–</span></strong><strong><span style="color:#000080;"> Masters got enlightenment  !  ( Buddhist doesn’t intentionally pursuit the goal by will</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#ffffff;">—–</span></strong><strong><span style="color:#000080;"> but to set the goal as the default = if nothing else is there, what else can we wish for ? )</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">—–</span><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;"> When (to his eyes) no chocolate is there, why want to eat chocolate —&gt; once this kind</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#ffffff;">—–</span></strong><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">of mind  became the norm,  do something by the will doesn’t need a chocolate   <img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif?m=1300143154g" alt=":-D" width="15" height="15" align="BOTTOM" border="0" /> </span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color:#333333;">MIND or the information process in the Brain has distinctive tendency, If the same signals are repeated, </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#333333;">the response<strong> becomes routine</strong> or the signals will be<strong> completely ignored</strong> in order to save the energy</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#333333;"> by short-cut or shut-out.  This is an acclimation ( acclimatization) process of the brain and the physiology.<br />
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<p><span style="color:#333333;">If you eat chocolate all-day, ton of it, soon you will fed-up with it ( it&#8217;s a metaphor don&#8217;t try this in home and</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#333333;"> I wouldn&#8217;t presume any responsibility of its consequence ) = you become immune to it.  Even hate it.<br />
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<p><span style="color:#333333;">Or if you love your partner, love a lot, a lot  for 7 years equivalent amount (Well, some says 2 years these days)</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#333333;"> she ( or he ?) become either part of yourself or invisible.  In both case she or he no longer bother your Mind</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#333333;"> (= hence brain can save energy) = life just goes on as it is.  &#8212;&#8211; It&#8217;s a Peace !</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">—–</span><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;"> If he wants to do [A],  Just Do [A] —– anyhow nothing else is in the scope.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#ffffff;">—–</span></strong><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;"> But to choose [A] out of 26 and try to do, it may need to think and use a will.  </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">&#8212;-</span> &#8212;&#8211; But if nothing else is there, it is only a thing he can do.</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color:#333333;">So that, if you think and try doing it [A] all-day, next day, repeating million times = it become routine.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#333333;"> Then, You become able to do it automatic = without thinking. </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#333333;">Strangely, once you master this, by doing [A],  you are able to use the same mind-set to any other subject </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#333333;">in any moment at once.  The fundamental OS (operation system) of the brain changed to Zen Type.<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;"><strong>Non</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">Buddha had been doing this in his daily life (life was simple, handling only few same things</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;"> everyday = routine, as he went through the life of austere already, he didn&#8217;t need much)</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color:#333333;"> &#8212;&#8211; the followers copied his action and later realized the hidden effect as it is the way to get </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#333333;">the<span style="color:#000080;"><strong> State of Mushin (Mind of No-Mind) = routine work without thinking.</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#333333;"> Since then, all the Buddhist&#8217;s sect having a simple repeating act in their Buddhists practice. </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>Especially the Master Bodhidharma was the one who used the effect of repeating action as</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong> the main tool to get the state of Mushin and the Enlightenment which is known as ZEN. </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#333333;">Therefore,<span style="color:#000080;"><strong> repeating or</strong></span></span><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#000080;"><strong> bombarding the brain with the same signal ( as long as it is the same </strong></span></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>stimulant = thinking or action) the brain reacts the same &#8212;&gt; either it became routine </strong></span></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>or immune.</strong></span></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;"> Then once this tendency was established, the brain become able to handle any signal, either </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">completely ignore it or automatically reacts with full concentrated force.<span style="color:#ffffff;"> &#8212;</span> <span style="color:#333333;">This is the ZEN.</span></span></strong></p>
<p>It is obvious, if anyone did [A], million times, he must become an expert, and able to do while eyes closed,</p>
<p>without thinking, but with exactly same precision.</p>
<p>Yet strange phenomenon is that the person who mastered to do the thing without thinking, also become able</p>
<p>to see (or concentrate) only the subject and able to [not to see] others. Then, if necessary not to see anything.</p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>Since the brain become more efficient, not waste energy or time, it able to see something new</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong> or its wider implications = hidden meaning and the truth.</strong></span></p>
<p>And, some become able to see which is invisible to others. (Literally, third eyes, or Hyper vision = able to see</p>
<p>such as a high-speed movement in slow-motion) &#8212;&#8211; all by the training of sensory.</p>
<p><span style="color:#333333;"><strong>(It is rather well-known phenomenon, a person encounter such as a car-accident or explosion</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#333333;"><strong> seeing the moving scene in slow-motion.   This is the Hyper-vision) &#8212;&#8211;</strong> <span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>ZEN is only using</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>natural body and brain capability, but just enhancing it. &#8212;&#8211; no fancy magic or placebo</strong></span><span style="color:#333333;"><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;"> effects.</span></strong></span></p>
<p>( That&#8217;s why the past Masters described it as &#8221; Dog Shit&#8221; as it was nothing special or miraculous.   😀 )<span style="color:#333333;"><strong><br />
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<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>___/\___</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">&#8212;</span></p>
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