Question

Is it normal to feel despondent and forlorn whereas you're on the Way? I frequently feel separate from the world because of a great internal confusion and fears that bother me and keep me off the present moment. I'm sometimes feel I'm going mad. . .

Answer from Master Kosen

It's better to think you're mad. Everybody thinks he's normal, whereas most people are at least mini-lunatics, or even maxi-lunatics. If you think you're a little mad, you're on the way of being cured.

 

The whole world is under pressure, threats are great, everybody's talking about crisis. This makes us feel deeply unsecure; the whole world is actually mad. Large corporations such as Total don't pay any taxes and want to drag us into a war with Syria, that we, the middle class, will have to pay through ever heavier taxes. Such corporations participate in murders to make unscrupulous billionaires even richer. This is madness. 

 

Yes, we're mad, even Zen masters such as me are completely mad. Not to speak of Zen Masters who think they are the standard of normality and stink of satori.

 

Kosen


Mondo On the same theme : Emotions

About willpower

Greetings, I'll be very greatful if you will find some time for my question. I understand that buddhism (or practice buddhist teaching) is the way to find answer for all my questions. But I have realy lack of willpower. I have read lot of books about buddhism and I also found our local zen sangha, where I can practicing. But everytime when I ...

Enjoying zazen

Since a few months ago, I keep on practicing zazen almost in spite of me, but I do not feel any longer the stamina and the eagerness that fear of impermancence used to give me. On the other hand, I've quite understood that one should not expect anything from practising, except maybe the satisfaction of knowing that one doesn't have ...

Awakening

Is it normal to feel despondent and forlorn whereas you're on the Way? I frequently feel separate from the world because of a great internal confusion and fears that bother me and keep me off the present moment. I'm sometimes feel I'm going mad. . .
...

Death

I lost my father when I was two years old and a few years ago, I've been close to death and lost my elder brother in the event. This awakened in me a rampant fear, fear of being ill, of dying, of loneliness and of ceasing to exist. Since that day, all these fears disturb me and impact my life. The fact of losing brings me a great suffering and ...

feeling of doubt

Hello ! I have a question wich is bothering me a long time regulary. It is about a feeling of doubt. Very deep in myself, i feel doubt about most of the things i do in life. Even if i get things i wished for a long time, once they appear it can not satisfy me and i feel it is just another "thing" which i got in my life, a nother present to the ...




To know more about mondo

You may want to see other themes of this mondo online, or ask your own question : see Mondo online : questions to zen Master Kosen Thibaut

Subscribe to our YouTube channel


Zen meditation : retreats

Next sesshin : from 29 March 2024 to 01 April 2024 - Information and registration to this zen retreat

Easter Sesshin 2024 : Zazen the méditation Zen, Caroux Temple near of Montpellier


The way transmitted to the West I transmitted to the East Fishing for the moon Ploughing the clouds I gathered the ancient savor.

Dogen

Donate to the Sangha

Let's help the Kosen Sangha and the Yujo Nyusanji zen temple


Mondo

Questions to zen Master Kosen

Boddidharma, buddhist monk

Master Kosen

Follow his teachings in the Montpellier Zen dojo and in the great sesshins at Yujo Nyusanji zen temple


Kusens

Listen to and download last teachings (in french) of Master Kosen in Montpellier's dojo