Zen Buddhist Meditation Student John Martin John practices in the Zen tradtion of Robert Aitken (Diamond Sangha)Was attracted to fundamentalist Christianity as a teen for a few years. It did not work for John. He abandoned all religion in his 20's living an agnostic/atheist life. He was accepting things that other people were saying, and he decided he was not going to do that again.He stumbled on a book On Zen by Alan Watts. That caught his attention. Then started to figure out how to meditate, learned a bit from the TM movement.Did you understand what parts of it?He did not understand all of it, but he did get non-duality. This was a whole new understanding that opened up for John. He by then had his own meditation practice on and off. Year on, year off kind of practice. He would feel that he would need to get back into it.Where you attracted to meditation as a way of insight, or as a way to experience something you were looking for?Maybe more the insight. I got fairly involved in the lead-up to the presidential elections in 2004. When that was all done, and the dust settled, I realized I was full of anger and even hatred towards the chosen political enemies. Then I phoned the Zen Center after finding them online.Continue Reading...
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