Koan & Mysticism – The ZEN paradox is the bridge from the I to the SELF – The religious transformation and mystical experience
Zen: Religious Experience and Mysticism in a Fatherless Time. It is the living core of every religion, in which the only thing that matters is practice - religious experience, realization. It's not about proof of God but about experiences of God! The Logos - The Word that brings my soul to life! In ZEN and mysticism people often meditate with paradoxical questions (Koan, Hwadu). Only the paradox can aim at a breakthrough of a consciousness limited by the I-form into the non-I-like self.
The Koan is the mystical bridge from the I to the SELF!
Koan & Mysticism - The Paradox
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Mumonkan - The Gateless Gate
The Mumonkan is one of the two main collections of koans. Zen makes the mind the foundation and the gateless barrier the entrance. Now, how do you get through this gateless barrier (Mumonkan)? It is said that whatever comes from outside can never be your own. Whatever is acquired by external circumstances must ultimately perish. However, this statement itself creates waves when there is no wind at all. Cuts through the flawless skin. Mumonkan (Koan collection)...
Hekiganroku – The Blue Cliff Record
The Hekiganroku is the other of the two main collections of koans. When your vision penetrates this collection and you use it clearly, you are able to pivot spontaneously without freezing or getting stuck in the middle of all sorts of lightning-fast changes and complex interactions and interlocking intricacies. They do not establish views or adhere to any mental states. They move with a powerful current, so that “the grasses bend as the wind moves.” Hekiganroku (Koan Collection)...
Cookies of Zen - Direct Path to Enlightenment
On a return visit to Korea in 1984, Master Myo Vong had the great good fortune to meet Venerable Master Hye-Am, the living patriarch of Korean Zen (Son), who at the age of 98 had been looking for an opportunity in to come to the United States: Master Myo Vong became his western bridge and his Dharma successor. Venerable Master Hye-Am's teaching was simply to find "the Church in one's mind and God in one's self"; a traditional teaching of self-cultivation; Long forgotten by many in the East and long lost in the West.