Question
Hello Master Kosen,
In one of your answers on June 6, 2011, you explain that zazen has never claimed to be a method of personal development. What, then, is zazen? In answer to a question on September 25, 2006, you say practice constantly frees you and lets you see your true dimension.
To Yokozuna, on June 26, 2014, who hesitates between deepening his practice and engaging in the world in various ways, you answer that it is not the world we must leave, but the dimension. Move to a higher dimension. Leave the old world to be reborn in the new, and that is why we must practice every day.
In answer to a question on May 10, 2013, from someone whose practice seemed to have distanced him from everything and everyone, you quote your own master: Zen is life; it should not be a quest, but simply putting a higher dimension into practice within our lives just as they present themselves.
In light of these scattered quotations, whose meaning I am far from grasping but which I intuitively group together, I would very much like you to explain your reply to someone surprised that Zen Buddhism seems to place little importance on reincarnation. Your answer is: "Buddha says: Reality lies in inner realization, far beyond subject and object. This I teach to bodhisattvas, and I reserve other teachings for the ignorant."
Could you please explain these words of Buddha to me, Master Kosen?
Thank you in advance. Machin.
machin
Master Kosen’s answer
These words of Buddha seem to me to need no commentary and to stand on their own. I would not have the indecency to add anything.
Kosen