The Zen of Advaita - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

Nisargadatta Maharaj:“Give up your tendency to defineyourself.”In this way, to appreciate Zenat its “highest” level is toappreciate an interaction betweenan illusionary one mind to onemind whereby pressure in the formof a Koan is added to a shockpoint, (the place the imaginary“I” was formed and imagines it“is”).In this way questions thatstudents ask act as indicators ofwhere the shock points or stuckpoints are.Each questioner, by presentingtheir question is shouting out,announcing and presenting theirshock point, stating, “This iswhere I am stuck.”For many people reading Zencan be almost a frustratingprocess, “What are they tryingto communicate, what are theytrying to tell me?” But like noother system the question itselfand the answer itself is a key to28