Author: Tao Qing Hsu
The word “Zen” is transliterated
from Chinese, and is composed by two Chinese characters, which is the character
"express" and "single". Therefore, the literal meaning of
the Chinese character in Zen is to express single.
From the literal meaning of the
Chinese word ”Zen”, we will be more easy to understand what the Zen means and
enter the realm of Zen. Now we know that Zen is to express single. That is, there
is no duality (no dualism). Duality here means an instance of opposition or
contrast between two concepts or two aspects of something.
This kind of binary exists in our
logic training or any life education. It has become an integral part of our
lives. We can say that it has become the inertia of our lives. Such concept of
dualism has kidnapped our lives and affects a lot of aspects of our lives.
However, we are not alert to this.
We all know that only one palm
doesn't make a sound. Many conflicts in humans are generated from the duality.
It is as if two palms to make sounds. If we realized the profound meaning of
Zen, we will find that there are many ridiculous absurdities in the
consciousness of human opposition, whether in dictatorship or democracy, or any
religious doctrine, or any racism, because such things are always related to the dualism and its binary opposition.
However, this is only the
introduction of Zen, and it has not yet to make us enter the truth of Zen. In a
word, the point of Zen is to break the personal inertial thinking, to break
self-attachment, to break self-obsession and there is no binary opposition in
personal mind. With this basic concept, it will make it easier for us to enter
the realm of Zen.
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