Question
What do i bring to peoples life with my zazen daily practice? I’m i helping other beings when i sit down in zazen posture?
Ricardo
Answer from Master Kosen
Everyone, before being able to really help others, get to know who he is, to be well in his shoes, to have progressed on the Way of internal liberation and for that should help himself. If someone is held by his own phenomenons, inner chains, that would be hazardous to jump helping others.
This is what zazen does, it helps you on your achievement, spiritual, and with it then you can be available to turn yourself to the others.
Practicing peace, love and compassion, as well as rightness, increases peace and love and wisdom of the world. So also directly practicing it helps everyone.
Continue with courage, the vow of the bodhisattva is to save everyone, although he knows that during his short life that might not be possible, but he still continues. That’s why this is a vow.
Kosen