All i need today is a little bit of purdue and a whole lot of jesus Shirt
One student told Zen master Sung Son:
To have an exact goal, according to the Christian faith, you must believe in the difference between good and evil. How can you be the ultimate goal to believe in God at the same time as your meditation practice?
Do you understand God? Asked the Zen master.
Students look down at the answers: No, sir.
So you don’t understand. You say, “God, God.” The language is great, but you have no idea what it means, especially what the language really means! It’s very interesting. “The Zen master continued, “Sometimes I teach at Gethsemani, a Trappist monastery in Kentucky. That’s where Thomas Merton used to live. The monks in the house Please invite us to come back every year to guide the days. Month of retreat and bestowal of talks and consultations about Meditation.
They are canonical in our own way, and we also ask voluntarily according to their style. After that, we meditated together, had business consultation sessions, had formal meals together and gave talks together. They have a very old hymn, content like this:
All i need today is a little bit of purdue and a whole lot of jesus Shirt
God is pure emptiness, made in a form. Therefore, God is pure inherently empty. What is this empty purity? The Bible says, “Be still and know that I am God.” How do you become still? That is a very important point. Quiet and empty, meaning no form, no words or words. So it had pre-arisen thought. If you are still, then you will understand what is truth, what is freedom, what is charity, what is perfect love. That charity ‘has no conditions.’ When you are holding your thoughts and situations, you cannot fully understand God’s love. You cannot understand God. You cannot understand equality, or what is right and not right.