[huntbytnkbel]

The Buddhist teaching is not aimed at just getting
another kind of experience. It is about understanding the
nature of experience itself. It is aimed at actually observing
what it means to be a human being. We are contemplating
life, letting go of delusion, letting go of the source of
human suffering and realizing truth, realizing Dhamma.

Thanks Craig dear,

This quote is very important and fortunately, very simple stated about what the teachings are. Here the "is not aimed at just getting another kind of experience" is at the core of Zen understanding. The saying "do it just because..." points to this important aspect in the practice of the teachings. When we set, in the case of zazen, a kind of objective we can get deluded trying to have "another kind of experience". Most of the pitfalls in zazen and in bringing zazen into daily life comes when forget the odd "do it just because..."

Namaste,