QUESTION (resumed) :
Why practice ?
QUESTION (original) :
Why practice ? What worries me, that is the 'why' of practice .. and the 'why' of all things. Everything appears to me vain. When we will be dead, you and me, I doubt that your corpse will be better than mine; I doubt that you will go in some paradise where I will not go. Then why practice ? Tell me, please, in what I am wrong in asking the question this way.
Respectfully yours. Dragan.
ANSWER :
Practice for nothing without expecting anything, no result, no reward, it is the true zen of Buddhas. 'Mushotoku'. In general, it is at that stage that ordinary man abandons practice and it is at this stage that Buddha begins.
KOSEN!