DiscussWorldIssues - Socio-Economic Religion and Political Uncensored Debate - View Single Post - 4 Questions for Matthieu Ricard, Tibetan monk

**siklop** · 04-14-2011, 11:41 PM

You refer to that conviction within Soto Zen traditions it as an illusion?

Yes... but I told that just some of them. Zazen, in accordance of what the Buddha taught, is about contemplation. Contemplation of what? Of how mental fabrications arise and fade so not to be attached to them and not to point them as having an inherent nature.

04-14-2011, 11:41 PM	#18
siklop Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 432 Senior Member	You refer to that conviction within Soto Zen traditions it as an illusion? Yes... but I told that just some of them. Zazen, in accordance of what the Buddha taught, is about contemplation. Contemplation of what? Of how mental fabrications arise and fade so not to be attached to them and not to point them as having an inherent nature.
	Quote