ISSUE 02 | FEBRUARY 2020
BIKERS CLUB ® MAGAZINE | PAGE 36
"It is better to conquer yourself, than to win a
thousand battles. Then victory is yours. It cannot be
taken from you."
The same goes with Zen
because Zen Buddhism is
a practice that needs to be
experienced, not a concept
that you can
intellectualize or
understand with your
brain.
The Zen means "meditation"
in Japanese, and Buddhism
is the core of Zen.
Zen meditation, is a way of
vigilance and self discovery
which is practiced while
sitting on a meditation
cushion. It is the experience
of living from moment to
moment.
It is through the practice of
Zazen that Gautama got
enlightened and became the
Buddha.
Zazen is an attitude of
spiritual awakening, which
when practiced, can become
the source from which all the
actions of daily life flow -
eating, sleeping, breathing,
walking, working, talking,
thinking, and so on.
Zen is not a theory, an idea,
or a piece of knowledge. It is
not a belief, dogma, or
religion; but rather, it is a
practical experience. We
cannot intellectually grasp
"To every man is given a key to the gates of heaven.
The same key opens the gates of hell."
Zen because human intelligence and
wisdom are too limited - the dojo (the
hall where Zazen is practiced) is
different from the university.
Zen is not a moral teaching, and as it
is without dogma, it does not require
one to believe in anything. A true
spiritual path does not tell people
what to believe in; rather it shows
them how to think; or, in the case of
Zen - what not to think.
Zen is not a theory, an idea, or a
piece of knowledge. It is not a
belief, a dogma, or a religion.