Let’s be honest, did the Buddha actually teach that your practice should consist mainly in cross-legged sitting ( zazen), having faith that you are already a Buddha in which sitting helps you to unfold and reveal more and more of your innate Buddhaness? No he did not. ![]() They don’t realize that Zen is just a Japanese word for dhyana which Siddhartha used to awaken to the absolute and become a Buddha. Even worse, some who practice Zen these days say Zen is not Buddhism so they refuse to read the discourses of the Buddha. This decline is due in large part to trying to force Buddhism to adapt to the ways of the modern world.Īs we might expect, Buddhism ends up appealing to the wrong types of people while the practice of Zen, itself, which Siddhartha used to become enlightened, turns into something it was never meant to be, essentially, a sect of learning how to sit cross-legged on a cushion trying not to fall asleep believing that you are a Buddha as long as you sit with your back ramrod straight. Buddhism is more like a country that had its golden age and is now in its decline. This is a change, by the way, that is corrupting Buddhism. Only if you realize the secret of Zen can you begin to see what original Buddhism was like and how much today’s Buddhism is not like original Buddhism. Unfortunately, they also become part of Zen. ![]() Over time, wrong ideas get introduced into Buddhism when, in fact, they are not part of Buddhism. It is a truism to say that the Buddhism of the Buddha is much different than the Buddhism today. Some wrong impressions about the Buddha’s teaching and Zen From the book The Secret of Zen, Chapter 9
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