Swiss Zen Monk – Vows of Saints and Sages – Brother and Father for Society!

The Zen monk 's vows are expressions and reinforcements and motivate the daily practice of compassion and wisdom, for the practical implementation in everyday life for the benefit of all living beings. A Zen monk is viewed as someone striving for the highest level of knowledge, striving for enlightenment or realizing the truth in themselves in order to use it for the salvation of all living beings. The core is the idea of not only attaining enlightenment for oneself, but instead of helping all other beings to free themselves from the endless cycle of life and death.

• Living beings are numberless. I vow to set them all free.
• The desires are inexhaustible. I vow to end them all.
• The teachings are limitless. I vow to master them all.
• The path to enlightenment is endless. I vow to complete it.

The Mind is Empty (potential), not Nothingness

When the mind moves, speaking, doing, seeing, hearing, feeling, and knowing are all movement of the mind and movement of functioning. Because this movement moves the mind. Moving mind itself works. Without movement and function there is no spirit. And without spirit there is no movement. Yes, what moves is not spirit; What the mind is doesn't move; for the movement itself has no understanding. Spirit itself has no movement. Movement is not separate from spirit.

And mind is not separate from movement, but mind is neither separation nor that which is separate. Even the spirit is neither movement nor that which is moved. This is the function of the mind and what the mind functions on. That is the movement of the mind and what has moved the mind. Mind is neither "movement" nor "function". The origin of functioning itself is empty. For in the void no movement can be allowed. Both movement and functioning are the mind. But in the essence of the mind no movement must be allowed. That's why Scripture says, "It moves without moving."

Zen Monk

Day and night it goes and comes, but it has never gone and never come; Day and night it sees, and yet it has never seen; laughed but never laughed; listened but never listened; knows all the time but has no knowledge; happy but never been happy; walk around, but it has never walked around; and finally, staying, but it never lasted. (Zen monk and patriarch Bodhidharma)