Grow Up

The more practice I get under my hara, the more I notice that most Zen really isn't very revolutionary, or even revelatory. It's just common sense.

Anatta – no-self – is just what happens to successful adults. We get less selfish, less self-centred, less self-interested, less self-satisfied, less self-righteous. Just… less "self".

If you don't do this, you're not a grown-up. And as I've come to understand, lots of otherwise tall people never attain that.

So Zen is nothing more or less than maturity. Alright, it's a bit accelerated, and especially, deeper.

But that's what we're doing on the cushion.

We're growing old.

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