Question
Isn’t meditation a maneuver by the mind to cut itself off from facts?
Doesn’t it merely reinforce the ego?
The ego—don’t all our problems come from our mind?
Meditating: isn’t it trying to forget ourselves completely for a few moments to find the happiness we seek so much? But by meditating, don’t we become enslaved?
Anonymous
Answer from Master Kosen
Hello, fred 953,
There are many assumptions in your question-answer. Zazen means encountering the concrete world of the body and abandoning the mind’s world of assumptions. Directly.
Best regards,
Kosen