Leiðbeiningar fyrir byrjendur í zen-hugleiðslu þann 5. janúar

 

As has been said before, what makes Zen unique as it is practised in Japan is its systematic training of the mind. Ordinary mysticism has been too erratic a product and apart from one's ordinary life; this has Zen revolutionized. What was up in the heavens, Zen has brought down to earth. With the development of Zen, mysticism has ceased to be mystical; it is no more the spasmodic product of an abnormally endowed mind. For Zen reveals itself in the most uninteresting and uneventful life of a plain man of the street, recognizing the fact of living in the midst of life as it is lived. Zen systematically trains the mind to see this; it opens a man's eye to the greatest mystery as it is daily and hourly performed; it enlarges the heart to embrace eternity of time and infinity of space in its every palpitation; it makes us live in the world as if walking in the garden of Eden.

 

D. T. Suzuki

 

Þann 5. janúar kl. 19 er leiðbeining fyrir byrjendur í zen-hugleiðslu í húsi Zen á íslandi á Grensásvegi: Sjá betur hér: www.zen.is