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The Life of Zen
When I read books on Zen and Buddhism, the message “don’t get caught up in anything” comes up again and again. It is true that in order to live a happy life, it is important to enjoy the present moment and not get caught up in strange delusions. However, in order to start a business, create a new technology, or succeed in science, academia, or business, it is important to accumulate memories and cling to a hypothesis.
In fact, there are teachings in the Zen world that affirm these things. It is not a denial of free potential, but rather an interpretation that continuing to do something is an essential part of human life, whether it is observing precepts, setting aspirations, or maintaining a directional lifestyle.
For example, when it comes to work, don’t do any work and live a free and easy life! As Hakuin Zenji said in his book, “Ingenuity in motion is ten thousand billion times better than in stillness,” you can enter the state of “enlightenment” by immersing yourself in the work you are doing and remaining in a state of seriousness (maji) where there is no space for delusion to enter.
This means that even if you don’t do anything special like mindfulness or zazen, you can get rid of delusions and attain peace of mind by having and maintaining time to concentrate on one thing. A runner jogging, a musician playing a musical instrument, a scholar immersed in mathematics or physics, or an engineer concentrating on programming can all be considered in such a state.
If you persist in doing something, you will fall into the world of vexation and fall into a negative spiral. It’s like jogging because it’s good for your health, but you insist on continuing and end up destroying your body. In order to avoid falling into such a negative spiral, it is necessary to objectively quantify one’s state of mind and correct it at the appropriate time, but in the world of Zen, the term “as a fait accompli” is used to counter this.
According to wiki, “Fōbō is “a skillful means of teaching and guiding sentient beings, or a provisional teaching established to lure them into the true teaching. This means that it is not true, but it is done for the time being. By using it as a way to keep doing it, we can take a form of non-attachment, as if we are doing it for the time being, but it is okay to stop at any time.
Up to this point, I have been talking more about long-term strategies (how to live). When you are faced with short-term problems (such as a sudden influx of unreasonable work, sudden trouble, etc.), you can’t just live happily like this and you need a different strategy. I’d like to write about them another time.
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