Heres your Zen training for the year.

[Andre]

Andre, I'll post some zen questions here. This is more easy then the last time, I can just borrow some stuffs from the net and share it here. You don't have to reply to every one of these though...


The Monk Mayo asked this question of the Sixth patriarch: "What is Zen?" the Patriarch replied that, "when your mind is not dwelling on the dualism of good and evil, what is your original face before you were born?"


Hmmm, that's a tough one. Actually, I've got no idea.

Not sure either mate ! about the face or whats ment by that ; but originally like the Sun, at one completly within the All.
The choice made by us to come here tells a story of both all of us and the divine force or God within.

Discontent at knowing without experiencing .
Thus we chose to go down in frequency so at to experience ourselves in the material dimensions.

I would have thought the answer to "what is Zen"? would be, Allowance of all things?
FOr him to answer a question with a question is a nice way of saying you have chosen a journey and yet you want to know how it ends! it is the road that you need to look upon now, not the end. So he asked about the begining so that the journey becomes the realization.