practice is not having experience, or experience great revelations, or go anywhere and become anything. We are perfect as we are. And with the word "perfect" I mean simply that things are as they are. The practice aims to maintain consciousness, both our activities and the thoughts that separate us from them. While hammering nails or sit in meditation, simply hammered nails or sit and meditate. And because our senses are open, hear and feel other things too, sounds, smells, etc. When thoughts arise, notice them and return to our direct experience.
Awareness is our true self, is what we are. So we should not try to develop a special awareness, but simply to note how the block with our own thoughts, fantasies, opinions and judgments. Or experience a state of consciousness, which is natural in us, or are doing anything else. What distinguishes mature students is that most of the time they do something else. Just being here, living his life. Nothing special.
Charlotte Joko Beck
"Life as it is" (Teachings of Zen)
Photographs by Victor Manuel Balbás Liaño, 2010 Liencres
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