mettavalokanaya_international_buddhist_magazine_november_2019

The
life and
death….
The main purpose of Zen
meditation is to find back our
True Self, to return to our Original
Face. With Zen meditation, you
could then attain the ultimate wisdom
that enables you to liberate yourself from
all problems and suffering, helping you
to transcend the dualistic attachments
and fear towards ‘life’ and ‘death’. When
you’ve attained the wisdom of Zen,
you will realize and ‘settle’ all issues of
living and dying, once and for all. You
will gain utmost clarity and insights on
these crucial issues. You’ll attain ultimate
peace, joy and perfect awakening.
Zen enables you to throw away
all your physical, mental and spiritual
toxins. It is a vital practice of purifying
and balancing your body, mind and soul.
You will return to your Original Self if you
practice Zen consistently and diligently.
And who or what is your Original Self?
It’s actually your True Self, your true
Nature of being, that doesn’t belong
to any physical form or your discursive
thoughts. Our lives are actually just some
accumulation and gathering of mental
information or memories, installed
in a present body-mind combination
that I call Karmic Memory Body (KMB).
In short, this KMB is actually our
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consciousness —like a computer chip
that controls, contains and creates all
relevant activities.
In the KMB of this present
temporary life, we have both left and
right brains. Our left brains control all
our conscious, rational and analytical
activities while we are awake in our daily
life, while our right brains are in-charge
of our memories and intuitive functions
— it records all changes and happenings
in our lives, and it also controls our
subconscious activities such as dreams,
traumas, imaginations, creativity etc.
So, when you meditate, you optimize,
refresh and re-boot your KMB —
including your left and right brains —
hence you can integrate both of them
and make them work together and help
each other harmoniously and beautifully.
By the balancing power of Zen, you can
integrate these two different human
brains and make them more powerful
and purposeful. You become the master
of your KMB and not otherwise.
Our lives continue in this world of
Samsara, and our every thought, feelings
and perception are recorded within this
memory chip of our KMB. Good and bad,
ups and downs, joy and pains — all these
dualistic phenomena and life experiences
continue to happen in the time-space
matrix of past, present and future. When
this present KMB transforms itself into
“Relax your
mind for better
thinking”….
another form — it’s the ending of the
previous form — and we call it death; but
when this happens, another new form of
KMB is born — and this is what we called
‘birth’. So life and death are NOT really
two different concepts — they happen
at the same time as well — in fact, they
happen like this instantaneously almost
ALL THE TIME!!!! Even now, this moment,
you are experiencing the death of your
previous thoughts and the birth of your
current thoughts - isn’t this pretty clear
and logical for you?
So, what is life and death? It’s just
a series of phenomena/activities that are
transferred from one Karmic Memory
Body (KMB) to another. It is a fluid of
information transference, much like the
data transmission in your computer —
where data are being transferred in the
form of bits and bytes over a digital or
analog medium, and it enables digital or
analog communications as well as their
movements between various devices.
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