Zen in daily life is very simple.
Illusion IS reality.
This is easy to understand with an analogy. A magician's trick is reality. It
actually happens and is actually real. The illusion is being fooled by it
because you don't understand how it works. The reality is understanding it. The
reality of the magician's trick IS that it is a REAL illusion.
Similarly all of reality, every bit of the reality of daily life, is a
magician's trick. Everything that exists is reality but nothing is as it
initially appears to be. It is this misunderstanding of reality that is
illusion. To properly understand the illusion you must use mind and reason to
figure it out. Only then can you actually move beyond reason to directly
experience it for what it actually is.
Only then can you directly experience the true nature of things, that reality
is illusion and illusion is reality.
This is the meaning of "Mountains are mountains again"....
This is bringing Zen to daily life...
Edgar
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