Can do zazen by oneself?
Is it safe to do zazen alone without a zazen guider?
これらは
These are the questions are floating out when I was reading
-the comments on last entry.
In the last entry titled Enlightened space
The formula as my theory, Nothingness + Nothingness = Emptiness
アインシュタインの
The ripples have spread from Einstein’s Relativity theory
-to proof of the dimensional equation in the Multi-Dimensions.
Until yesterday, as the theme of this time
-the dimensional equation to describe zazen
-was supposed to be for this entry attaching my teacher’s commentary
-on science and engineering.
However, the opinions from readers and foreign friends
-they somehow convinced me thinking that the formulating equations
-would be better for next title.
My blog writing is for people who English-speaking range
-and people who have none experienced about zazen.
その
Among them a French friend who teaches me French
He always translates my blog entries into French.
だが、
But the main theme 『Enlightenment』on last entry
-was too difficult for him to interpreter with grasping the meaning
-has regarded in his mail with apologize.
しかも
To add the linguistic cultural gap makes confusing even to my husband
-when it comes translating the philosophy of Nothingness or the Emptiness
-it cannot be fully understood by them even with translation.
また、
Also, for people who none experiencing zazen
-they even can’t have the imagination of the emptied space or 5-Dimension
-telling the enlightenment
-it would be like a Google translation for Japanese sentences
-it may seem like a foreign language that even can’t be a quibble.
そのフランス
The words “Can’t translate for its difficulty”
-has told me for the first time from my French friend
-it has beaten my mind and yet remain.
To pushing me further, from my teacher T
-told me that the case of got confused one’s mind
-almost led to get insane by doing zazen alone
-it caused questions how safe to do zazen by oneself alone.
The motivation of learning zazen at first was from brain science books.
In my former work, which was an after school
どうしても
-students’ academic ability difference that caused as their results
-I wanted to find out based on cognitive process on brain science
-reading books and buying all books which titled brain was the trigger.
それらの
In those books, seemed most of brain scientists doing zazen or meditation
-and introduced many cases about increased focusing brain wave by doing zazen.
なら
If so I will try for it
-I have started self-contained zazen in the way introduction on the books.
だが、
However, while I was doing several times
I became to wanting know more about real zazen and
-began to take a training at a Buddhis temple where can have a zazen trial.
When I do zazen alone
どうしても
-easy to take comfort posture
-afraid to have tendency quitting the session when legs get pain
-but can have the view that my thought going crazily and scattering.
また、
Also, the stress has been accumulated for a long time in mind
どのような
-how the stress formed
-it can be possible to visualize in one’s own way.
もし、ある
If someone has a moment thinking that not okay anymore
-by doing zazen alone
その
The person must have reached to the essential core of the ego concept.
その
The person is given two ways choices, one is to quit zazen with incompletion -or continue further more on taking training from a zen-master.
なので、
Therefore, doing zazen alone
-it can make the motivation for want to know real zazen and
これから
-it would be the first step to go further which should be taken.