Note sull'episodio
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, discusses the meaning of the Zen saying, “Joy in the morning. Sleep at night. What else?”
When we “do not know,” then we don’t concern ourselves with obsessions about outcomes. That is the meaning of “no mind.”
Start by discovering what “no mind” is not.
Is there a gradual acquisition of “no mind?”
Is there an enduring entity called self? Is there a self to improve? Do not accept of reject an answer without learning for yourself directly.
Is the thinker different than his thoughts?
Just like we have frames of images in our vision, which are just a series of flashes which we might think are continuous… so do we have a series of thoughts, a thinking mind, that we might think are continuous… but they are not.
How do we use the mind to study the mind? A knife cannot cut itsel ...