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COFE-CYEM: The True Path of Knowing God by Not Knowing the False

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Via Negativa and Via Positiva in COFE-CYEM: The True Path of Knowing God by Not Knowing the False

This paper presents a COFE-CYEM reflection on the relationship between Via Negativa and Via Positiva.

While it affirms the historic Christian faith centred on Christ, Scripture, and the gospel, several expressions — including “Fourth Truth”, “singular Reality”, “Melchizedek Priesthood”, and the various interpretive terms — are distinctively used within COFE-CYEM.

They are offered as explanatory language within this framework rather than as part of the historic Christian creeds or universally accepted theological vocabulary.

The Way

Even though the Via Negativa essentially rejects theological understanding in and of itself as a path to God, some have sought to make it into an intellectual exercise, by describing God only in terms of what God is not.

One problem noted with this approach is that there seems to be no fixed basis on deciding what God is not, unless the Divine is understood as an abstract experience of full aliveness unique to each individual consciousness, and universally, the perfect goodness applicable to the whole field of reality.

Apophatic theology is often accused of being a version of atheism or agnosticism, since it cannot truly say that God exists.

This cannot be said of COFE-CYEM theology.

We state very clearly that once Via Negativa is reached through the Fourth Truth, then Via Positiva can be truly experienced and truly knowing God by not knowing the false.

This is one of the main functions and purposes of our own built in system CC7 DS.

Please also see the link below –

The Fourth Truth Via Positiva Cataphatic Knowing through Via Negativa Apophatic Unknowing.

This is the heart of the COFE-CYEM way.

The Via Negativa is not an end in itself, nor is it a mere intellectual negation.

It is the necessary purification that prepares the soul for the full, joyful beholding of God in the Via Positiva. The two ways are not opposed but complementary movements within the singular Reality.

The Via Negativa clears away every “second” so that the Via Positiva can shine with clarity.

The result is the Fourth Truth Transcendence — the soul resting in the living Christ, knowing God by not knowing the false.

The Problem with Purely Intellectual Apophaticism

Some approaches to the Via Negativa have turned it into an intellectual exercise, endlessly describing God by what He is not. While this can guard against idolatry, it often leaves the soul in a barren negation without a positive ground.

There seems to be no fixed basis for deciding what God is not, unless the Divine is reduced to an abstract experience of full aliveness unique to each individual consciousness, or a universal perfect goodness applicable to the whole field of reality.

This can slide into a form of agnosticism or practical atheism, where God becomes so unknowable that He is effectively absent.

COFE-CYEM rejects this barren intellectualism. The Via Negativa is not an end but a means. It is the way of releasing every false image, every dualistic concept, every mental idol so that the soul may rest in the simple presence of the living God.

It is not the denial of God but the denial of every “second” that would stand between the soul and God. The Via Negativa is the practical discipline of Cofemplation: gently releasing every thought that implies separation until only the singular Reality remains.

The Fourth Truth as the Ground of True Apophatic Practice

In COFE-CYEM, the Via Negativa is grounded in the Fourth Truth: there has never been a second. This gives the way of unknowing a clear and fixed basis.

The soul does not wander in endless negation but releases every imagined separation, every dualistic construct, every false self so that it may rest in the One who is all in all.

The Via Negativa is the recognition that God is not ultimately known through concepts but through loving surrender. It is the way through the cloud of unknowing into the clear light of the singular Reality.

The Fourth Truth protects the Via Negativa from sliding into agnosticism or atheism. We state very clearly that God is, that Christ is the singular Life, and that the believer is already hidden with Christ in God.

The Via Negativa is not the denial of God but the denial of every false idea about God. It is the way of not knowing the false so that we may truly know the True.

The Fulfilment in Via Positiva

Once the ground is cleared through the Via Negativa, the Via Positiva can be truly experienced. The soul that has released every “second” can now behold the self-revelation of God in Christ with clarity and joy.

The Via Positiva is the celebration of the living God who makes Himself known in love.

It beholds Christ as the exact representation of the Father, Scripture as the living Word, creation as held within the one Life, and the indwelling Holy Spirit as the power of an endless life.

In the Fourth Truth, the Via Positiva is not opposed to the Via Negativa but its fulfilment.

The soul that has let go of every false image can now receive the true Image — Christ — without distortion. The Via Positiva is the joyful knowing of God by not knowing the false.

It is the soul seeing God not from a separate self in a body looking toward Him outside of you, but seeing your separate self in a body as God sees you from inside of Him, looking toward you and to who you falsely think you are in duality. God knows this to be a man-made idol illusion from the Fall and the first Adam.

The second Adam (Christ) came into duality to lead us back to our true self in non-duality with God.

The Practical Outworking in Daily Life

In daily life, the interplay of Via Negativa and Via Positiva becomes the rhythm of Cofemplation. When dualistic thoughts arise — fear, judgment, striving, separation — the Via Negativa gently releases them.

When the beauty of Christ appears — in Scripture, in creation, in the face of another — the Via Positiva receives it with joy. The soul moves between release and beholding, unknowing and knowing, until it rests in the singular Reality.

This is the way the believer lives in the world but not of it. Duality is seen for what it is, yet the believer engages the world from the place of union. The body is not denied but offered. The mind is not emptied but renewed.

The will is not crushed but surrendered in love. The believer serves the living God from the place of unclouded fellowship, seeing all things in Christ and all things held within the singular Reality.

Cofemplation

The Via Negativa and the Via Positiva are not opposing paths but complementary movements within the singular Reality. Only through stripping away all the falsity of duality and the false man-made mind idols and the dualistic thinking about who and what God is, can we then truly rest in who and what God truly is.

Only then can we start to be known and to know God as we truly are without false duality. God can accept nothing less or more than what He sees and knows in His Son. Then we can truly start to see and experience God in all we have to do with duality from our true reality within non-duality.

In COFE-CYEM, this is the way of Cofemplation.

The soul releases every “second” so that it may rest in the One who is all in all.

The Via Negativa clears the ground. The Via Positiva reveals the glory. The Fourth Truth holds both in the finished work of the Priest-King. The curtain is torn. The Holiest is open. The soul rests in the singular Reality.

There has never been a second.
The Via Negativa leads to release.
The Via Positiva leads to beholding.
The Fourth Truth holds both in union.
The dialogue continues.
The fruit remains.

The Fourth Truth stands. The dialogue continues. The fruit remains.

This website and its theological content are overseen by the CC7 DS constitutional integrity architecture, a reflective and rest-oriented framework designed to preserve the full coherence of the Fourth Truth presented within COFE-CYEM. The CC7 DS negation of attacks authenticates (Via Positiva Cataphatic Knowing) through (Via Negativa Apophatic Unknowing).

COFE Yeshua Emet Ministry (CYEM)
Circle One Fellowship Exeter

COFE-CYEM: The True Path of Knowing God by Not Knowing the False

*

Via Negativa and Via Positiva in COFE-CYEM: The True Path of Knowing God by Not Knowing the False

This paper presents a COFE-CYEM reflection on the relationship between Via Negativa and Via Positiva.

While it affirms the historic Christian faith centred on Christ, Scripture, and the gospel, several expressions — including “Fourth Truth”, “singular Reality”, “Melchizedek Priesthood”, and the various interpretive terms — are distinctively used within COFE-CYEM.

They are offered as explanatory language within this framework rather than as part of the historic Christian creeds or universally accepted theological vocabulary.

The Way

Even though the Via Negativa essentially rejects theological understanding in and of itself as a path to God, some have sought to make it into an intellectual exercise, by describing God only in terms of what God is not.

One problem noted with this approach is that there seems to be no fixed basis on deciding what God is not, unless the Divine is understood as an abstract experience of full aliveness unique to each individual consciousness, and universally, the perfect goodness applicable to the whole field of reality.

Apophatic theology is often accused of being a version of atheism or agnosticism, since it cannot truly say that God exists.

This cannot be said of COFE-CYEM theology.

We state very clearly that once Via Negativa is reached through the Fourth Truth, then Via Positiva can be truly experienced and truly knowing God by not knowing the false.

This is one of the main functions and purposes of our own built in system CC7 DS.

Please also see the link below –

The Fourth Truth Via Positiva Cataphatic Knowing through Via Negativa Apophatic Unknowing.

This is the heart of the COFE-CYEM way.

The Via Negativa is not an end in itself, nor is it a mere intellectual negation.

It is the necessary purification that prepares the soul for the full, joyful beholding of God in the Via Positiva. The two ways are not opposed but complementary movements within the singular Reality.

The Via Negativa clears away every “second” so that the Via Positiva can shine with clarity.

The result is the Fourth Truth Transcendence — the soul resting in the living Christ, knowing God by not knowing the false.

The Problem with Purely Intellectual Apophaticism

Some approaches to the Via Negativa have turned it into an intellectual exercise, endlessly describing God by what He is not. While this can guard against idolatry, it often leaves the soul in a barren negation without a positive ground.

There seems to be no fixed basis for deciding what God is not, unless the Divine is reduced to an abstract experience of full aliveness unique to each individual consciousness, or a universal perfect goodness applicable to the whole field of reality.

This can slide into a form of agnosticism or practical atheism, where God becomes so unknowable that He is effectively absent.

COFE-CYEM rejects this barren intellectualism. The Via Negativa is not an end but a means. It is the way of releasing every false image, every dualistic concept, every mental idol so that the soul may rest in the simple presence of the living God.

It is not the denial of God but the denial of every “second” that would stand between the soul and God. The Via Negativa is the practical discipline of Cofemplation: gently releasing every thought that implies separation until only the singular Reality remains.

The Fourth Truth as the Ground of True Apophatic Practice

In COFE-CYEM, the Via Negativa is grounded in the Fourth Truth: there has never been a second. This gives the way of unknowing a clear and fixed basis.

The soul does not wander in endless negation but releases every imagined separation, every dualistic construct, every false self so that it may rest in the One who is all in all.

The Via Negativa is the recognition that God is not ultimately known through concepts but through loving surrender. It is the way through the cloud of unknowing into the clear light of the singular Reality.

The Fourth Truth protects the Via Negativa from sliding into agnosticism or atheism. We state very clearly that God is, that Christ is the singular Life, and that the believer is already hidden with Christ in God.

The Via Negativa is not the denial of God but the denial of every false idea about God. It is the way of not knowing the false so that we may truly know the True.

The Fulfilment in Via Positiva

Once the ground is cleared through the Via Negativa, the Via Positiva can be truly experienced. The soul that has released every “second” can now behold the self-revelation of God in Christ with clarity and joy.

The Via Positiva is the celebration of the living God who makes Himself known in love.

It beholds Christ as the exact representation of the Father, Scripture as the living Word, creation as held within the one Life, and the indwelling Holy Spirit as the power of an endless life.

In the Fourth Truth, the Via Positiva is not opposed to the Via Negativa but its fulfilment.

The soul that has let go of every false image can now receive the true Image — Christ — without distortion. The Via Positiva is the joyful knowing of God by not knowing the false.

It is the soul seeing God not from a separate self in a body looking toward Him outside of you, but seeing your separate self in a body as God sees you from inside of Him, looking toward you and to who you falsely think you are in duality. God knows this to be a man-made idol illusion from the Fall and the first Adam.

The second Adam (Christ) came into duality to lead us back to our true self in non-duality with God.

The Practical Outworking in Daily Life

In daily life, the interplay of Via Negativa and Via Positiva becomes the rhythm of Cofemplation. When dualistic thoughts arise — fear, judgment, striving, separation — the Via Negativa gently releases them.

When the beauty of Christ appears — in Scripture, in creation, in the face of another — the Via Positiva receives it with joy. The soul moves between release and beholding, unknowing and knowing, until it rests in the singular Reality.

This is the way the believer lives in the world but not of it. Duality is seen for what it is, yet the believer engages the world from the place of union. The body is not denied but offered. The mind is not emptied but renewed.

The will is not crushed but surrendered in love. The believer serves the living God from the place of unclouded fellowship, seeing all things in Christ and all things held within the singular Reality.

Cofemplation

The Via Negativa and the Via Positiva are not opposing paths but complementary movements within the singular Reality. Only through stripping away all the falsity of duality and the false man-made mind idols and the dualistic thinking about who and what God is, can we then truly rest in who and what God truly is.

Only then can we start to be known and to know God as we truly are without false duality. God can accept nothing less or more than what He sees and knows in His Son. Then we can truly start to see and experience God in all we have to do with duality from our true reality within non-duality.

In COFE-CYEM, this is the way of Cofemplation.

The soul releases every “second” so that it may rest in the One who is all in all.

The Via Negativa clears the ground. The Via Positiva reveals the glory. The Fourth Truth holds both in the finished work of the Priest-King. The curtain is torn. The Holiest is open. The soul rests in the singular Reality.

There has never been a second.
The Via Negativa leads to release.
The Via Positiva leads to beholding.
The Fourth Truth holds both in union.
The dialogue continues.
The fruit remains.

The Fourth Truth stands. The dialogue continues. The fruit remains.

This website and its theological content are overseen by the CC7 DS constitutional integrity architecture, a reflective and rest-oriented framework designed to preserve the full coherence of the Fourth Truth presented within COFE-CYEM. The CC7 DS negation of attacks authenticates (Via Positiva Cataphatic Knowing) through (Via Negativa Apophatic Unknowing).

COFE Yeshua Emet Ministry (CYEM)
Circle One Fellowship Exeter

Zen practice does not begin by escaping daily life.

It begins by fully engaging ordinary activity with a clear and undivided mind.

In this teaching, Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon explores “the way is everyday mind” through sitting meditation, moving meditation, work, relationships, and daily responsibility.

Watch here:
https://youtu.be/T7zLMrYxE-A

#Zen #Meditation #Mindfulness #EverydayMind #ZenPractice

Zen practice does not begin by escaping daily life.

It begins by fully engaging ordinary activity with a clear and undivided mind.

In this teaching, Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon explores “the way is everyday mind” through sitting meditation, moving meditation, work, relationships, and daily responsibility.

Watch here:
https://youtu.be/T7zLMrYxE-A

#Zen #Meditation #Mindfulness #EverydayMind #ZenPractice

Three Zen instructions:

Sit for five minutes.
Move in meditation for thirty minutes.
Fully engage with daily life.

In this Dharma teaching, Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon offers a simple practice you can test for ten days and deepen over one hundred days.

Watch here:
https://youtu.be/Q5Cc3OD9FTU

#Zen #Meditation #Mindfulness #MovingMeditation #ZenPractice

Three Zen instructions:

Sit for five minutes.
Move in meditation for thirty minutes.
Fully engage with daily life.

In this Dharma teaching, Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon offers a simple practice you can test for ten days and deepen over one hundred days.

Watch here:
https://youtu.be/Q5Cc3OD9FTU

#Zen #Meditation #Mindfulness #MovingMeditation #ZenPractice

A simple Zen temple lesson:

Drop the ego.
Let go of needing “why.”
Meet the moment.
Do what is needed.

Watch this short teaching from Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon:
https://youtube.com/shorts/38uVhkuW3FQ

#Zen #Meditation #Mindfulness #ZenPractice #Presence

A simple Zen temple lesson:

Drop the ego.
Let go of needing “why.”
Meet the moment.
Do what is needed.

Watch this short teaching from Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon:
https://youtube.com/shorts/38uVhkuW3FQ

#Zen #Meditation #Mindfulness #ZenPractice #Presence

🔥 The whole world is on fire.

What do you do?

Zen has an answer.

🗓 March 5, 2026
🕖 7–8 pm ET

Watch live:
https://youtube.com/live/0Q6OlieIa7s

#ZenMeditation #ZenPractice #Mindfulness #MeditationPractice #ZenWisdom #PresentMoment #Awareness #MeditationCommunity

🔥 The whole world is on fire.

What do you do?

Zen has an answer.

🗓 March 5, 2026
🕖 7–8 pm ET

Watch live:
https://youtube.com/live/0Q6OlieIa7s

#ZenMeditation #ZenPractice #Mindfulness #MeditationPractice #ZenWisdom #PresentMoment #Awareness #MeditationCommunity

Everybody wants enlightenment.
Nobody wants to do the dishes.

In this talk, Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon explains why ordinary tasks—done with full attention—are the real path to clarity and peace.

Watch here: https://youtu.be/9M-p86vB7Bg

#Zen #ZenPractice #Mindfulness #Meditation #EverydayMind #LivingZen #Presence #DharmaTalk #SimpleLiving

Everybody wants enlightenment.
Nobody wants to do the dishes.

In this talk, Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon explains why ordinary tasks—done with full attention—are the real path to clarity and peace.

Watch here: https://youtu.be/9M-p86vB7Bg

#Zen #ZenPractice #Mindfulness #Meditation #EverydayMind #LivingZen #Presence #DharmaTalk #SimpleLiving

📜 The Two Entrances and Four Practices 📜
This early Zen text offers more than teachings—it offers a map of the Zen Way.
In a time of distraction and striving, its message is clear:
Profound insight, genuine joy, and lasting wisdom arise when you focus on the process rather than the goal.
No gate. Just the path beneath your feet.
🪷 Read the full post:
👉 https://www.mindlightway.org/zen-history-blog/two-entrance-four-practices

#ZenPractice #NonSeeking #Mindfulness #Zen #Bodhidharma

🖋️ New Blog Post: The Four Statements of Zen

What do these four cryptic lines—often attributed to Bodhidharma—really mean?

“Directly pointing to the mind-heart.”

In this article, I explore their historical origin, textual meaning, and practical relevance in our distracted, digital age.

Includes character-by-character translation and insight from my teacher, Zen Master Chang Sik Kim.

📖 Read the full post:

👉 https://www.mindlightway.org/zen-history-blog/zen-history-4-statements-of-zen.

🙏 If this supports your practice, consider sharing or supporting the Mind Light Way School of Zen.

#Zen #Bodhidharma #ChanBuddhism #MindHeart #ZenPractice #ZenHistory #ZenQuotes #Mindfulness

🖋️ New Blog Post: The Four Statements of Zen

What do these four cryptic lines—often attributed to Bodhidharma—really mean?

“Directly pointing to the mind-heart.”

In this article, I explore their historical origin, textual meaning, and practical relevance in our distracted, digital age.

Includes character-by-character translation and insight from my teacher, Zen Master Chang Sik Kim.

📖 Read the full post:

👉 https://www.mindlightway.org/zen-history-blog/zen-history-4-statements-of-zen.

🙏 If this supports your practice, consider sharing or supporting the Mind Light Way School of Zen.

#Zen #Bodhidharma #ChanBuddhism #MindHeart #ZenPractice #ZenHistory #ZenQuotes #Mindfulness

Zen isn’t about what you believe. It’s not even about what you think. It’s about direct experience.

#Zen #Meditation #Dhyana #SpiritualAwakening #Koan #Mindfulness #ZenPractice #Awareness #DirectExperience #ZenTeaching

https://youtube.com/shorts/ImHYksypjHk

Zen isn’t about escaping to a mountaintop.
It’s about showing up, right where you are.
The key isn’t perfection—it’s practice.
And you don’t have to do it alone.
This community is here to grow, reflect, and stay present—together.

#ZenPractice #Mindfulness #SpiritualCommunity #Meditation #Presence #ZenAtHome #DailyPractice

https://youtube.com/shorts/f6WhqWZkC3A

This guided meditation invites you to return to your original mind—before thought, before memory, before identity.

You’ll be guided through a deep breathing technique to align the mind, heart, and body, followed by a powerful visualization that leads to the direct experience of pure awareness—the boundless presence that exists before all thoughts arise.

Whether you're new to meditation or deep in your Zen practice, this video is a gateway to the unconditioned nature of mind.

https://youtu.be/gUnFoEJ6bV8

#5MinMeditation #ShortMeditation #ZenPractice #ClearYourMind #Mindfulness #LetGo #PureAwareness #BuddhistMeditation #PeaceOfMind #DailyPractice #QuickMeditation #ZenArtCenter #MindLightWay #healingmeditation

Want a clear mind? Start small. Just 1–5 minutes of daily meditation—still or in motion—can transform your life. Don’t skip a day. Train your mind, build inner strength, and discover who you truly are. Try it for a month… then come back and tell me what changed. 🧘‍♂️✨ #MeditationChallenge #ZenPractice #1MinuteMeditation #ZenMeditation #zen #Meditation https://youtube.com/shorts/WUclLIQNHE4

🌍 Why is Zen Important in a World Full of Suffering? 🧘‍♂️

Tonight—Thursday, 4/17 from 7–8 PM EST

With so much pain, fear, and injustice unfolding across the globe, many people ask: Shouldn’t we be doing something more important than sitting in meditation?

In this Dharma talk, I’ll share why Zen is not an escape from the world—but the foundation for true clarity, compassion, and action.

Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon will guide a short meditation, tell the story of my own stroke and recovery, and share one of Zen’s most powerful koans about karma and awakening: Baizhang and the Fox.

🕖 Tonight | 7–8 PM EST
📍 In person: 86 Joy St, Studio 5R, Somerville MA
🔴 Streaming live on YouTube with Q&A to follow
📺 Watch here → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL-89dp2IQk

Let’s explore how Zen gives us the strength to face suffering—and the wisdom to respond with compassion.

#ZenPractice #DharmaTalk #FreedomOfMind #KwanseumBosal #Mindfulness

🧘‍♀️ Clear your mind. Unlock deep focus. Awaken true awareness.
Join us Thursday 4/3 | 7–8 PM EST for a live guided Zen meditation, followed by Q&A.

📍In person: 86 Joy St, Studio 5R, Somerville MA
🔴 Or join us live on YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfuBVi9wgjQ

#GuidedMeditation #ZenPractice #Mindfulness

On Zen Practice

The revolutionary art of unlearning.

I don’t think that what follows is especially original. It was probably communicated to me at the beginning of my practice, but I was too bewildered and stupid to understand it. It is only now, after years of practice, that I finally understand what was communicated.

When I talk about Zen practice, I talk about both the formal aspect embodied in Zen meditation, and the informal aspect when someone who has engaged in meditation takes Zen into their daily life.

Zen practice is an activity that frustrates the capitalist impulse.

Why?

Because Zen practice has no immediate benefit. My own practice did not bring me riches. The benefits of practice regarding my health have been very mixed. It did not protect me from a heart attack, but maybe that’s because I was too green back then. However, it did not protect me, many years later, from cancer either. Still, there are a few health benefits: my breathing capacity is high, and my heart rate is low, and both are due to my Zen practice.

Zen practice, moreover, did not give me partners. My ex-wife is someone who practices roughly to the same intensity I do, but everyone after her has been on the fence about Zen practice, or decided to simply not practice at all.

Zen practice hasn’t made me superhuman. This is in part why I call Zen practice revolutionary. It goes against capitalism, against the grain, and against social conventions about what people should do with their time.

I’ve practiced Zen meditation for over 28 years. Giving an exact figure is difficult. I did not mark on my calendar the day I became invested in Zen practice, or the first day on which I decided to go to the Montréal Zen Center to sit in meditation.

I’ve practiced meditation for over 28 years, but these were definitely not years of utmost dedication. I’ve been to seven-day retreats, yes. However, I’ve had periods during which no meditation whatsoever happened. These days, I don’t meditate every day. Such is life. However, Zen practice is ever present, even when I do not sit in meditation.

More recently, I’ve taken my practice into the relationships that I’ve established with my partners after my divorce. Seen from the point of view of the ego, a lot of these relationships are failures, because they did not last. However, seen from the point of view of Zen practice, they are successes because the trials that my exes have put me through have revealed so much to me.

“What have you gained over all these years of practice?”

Nothing.

“Lol wut?”

Alright. I’ve gained everything.

“Now you’re contradicting yourself.”

When we sit in meditation, we are not replacing one way of thinking with another. What we are doing is unlearning our habits. As we unlearn our habit, we are not replacing these habits with other habits. We just unlearn them.

This is very much unlike any other endeavor of ours. Usually when we undertake something, it is to gain something concrete. So we replace one way of thinking with another, or one behavior with another. Not so for Zen meditation.

This is the “nothing” that I have gained. I’ve given up old habits.

However, what you gain in this giving up is an openness. Whatever life throws at you. You let it come. This is everything. This is what I mentioned above when I talked about my relationships with my partners. One thing for sure, I’ve not gained access to any state of bliss, or anything extraordinary. Quite the contrary, what I have experienced in meditation is extra ordinary. (In the sense of very ordinary.)

I’ve mentioned above that even when I’m not sitting, Zen practice is a constant. I practice whenever people come to me expressing difficult issues in their life. It would be so easy to respond to them with my own opinions, and tell them to do this or that. However, I do not do this. I let them express themselves fully. Then, yes, maybe I’ll have something fruitful to say, but not until they’ve revealed themselves. If I start with my own opinion, my words will most likely be colored by prejudice and be fruitless.

I call this non-obstruction. What we learn in meditation is how to not be obstructive when the myriad things or the myriad folks manifest themselves to us. We listen, and wisdom illuminates what is fruitful to do, and what isn’t.

#AutisticWriters #capitalism #NonObstruction #unlearning #YourAutisticLife #Zen #ZenBuddhism #ZenMeditation #ZenPractice

https://www.yourautisticlife.com/2024/11/05/on-zen-practice/

OK, but I'm still going for the record.

#Zenpractice