Toronto Zen Circle Group, Etobicoke, ON

In this whole world everyone searches for happiness outside, but nobody understands their true self inside. Everybody says, “I”. ” I want this, I am like that…” but nobody understands this “I”. Before you were born, where did you come from? When you die where do you go? If you sincerely ask, “What am I? Sooner or later you will run into a wall where all thinking is cut-off. We call this “Don’t know”.

Zen is keeping this don’t-know mind always and everywhere.

Meditation in Zen means keeping don’t know mind when bowing, chanting and sitting Zen. This is formal Zen practice. And, when doing something, just do it. When driving, just drive; when eating, just eat; when working, just work.

Finally your don’t-know mind will become clear. Then you see the sky, only blue – you can see the tree, only green. Your mind is like clear mirror – red comes, the mirror is red, white comes – the mirror is white.