Meditation: The alternative practice principles

Andrew Tootell's OzZen Podcast

No longer caught in the self-centred dream. I have given up seeking, Content just to be With whatever this moment brings. This guided meditation is a contemplation on the alternative practice principles. A common error is often to take up practice as a means to an end, we often fall into the trap of thinking we practice in order to obtain enlightenment. This is the activity of the ego-self. Rather we sit zazen to express our already enlightened buddha mind. To be Buddha is to sit with this moment exactly as-it-is and to leave everything exactly as-it-is. We even need to drop the goal of having no goal. To completely let go of seeking. As our Master Dogen said: “To study the way is to study the self; to study the self is to forget the ego-self; to forget the ego-self is to be actualized by the myriad forms”.