"The embryonic and fetal stages of human development are the most peaceful times of our lives. We know nothing. We simply exist, without control, completely dependent upon outside forces for our very survival. We quietly accept our delicate situation and continue to develop, entirely unknowing of whether or not we will survive until our mother’s next meal or until we have lived for one hundred years. We innately recognize our vulnerability, and we exist solely in the moment. The moment we are conceived, we master Zen."
What are your thoughts?
2007-02-09 13:54:05 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
The path of adult enlightenment is one of retracing your steps back through the detachment stages to "worldly things and people" and attempting to achieve the mastery of Zen. Perhaps only found in the stage your quote describes....trouble is for me it's not back far enough....I like to think it doesn't start there. That it is our souls longing to be in the state of love and being aware I exist , that goes back beyond conception to oneness with the creator, infinity and the boundless freedom to the essence of where zen stems.....the moment we are given the chance to live on earth to learn, we (or some of us) long to return to the place we came from before we became human........and to make sense of the cosmic lessons we visited earth to experience.......
2007-02-09 14:54:59 · answer #1 · answered by someone 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Zen is the practice of having no mind. Which is achieving a state of total inner peace through meditation. Now in the womb it has been scientifically proven that babies listen to music and react to certain sounds and/or the mothers mood. Now how would the babies be meditating if they were constantly listening and reacting. Thats not meditation. So they are not mastering zen, they are only learning how to react to the outside world. Meanwhile after they are born practicing zen would provide the meditative state of "having no mind".That is the Way.
2007-02-11 01:48:49 · answer #2 · answered by Modern Urban Samurai 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry Zen has nothing to do with conception, Zen is an attitude, At conception you don't even have a brain, and all the way to delivery your brain is inly taking in limited information, and thought pathways are developing.You need a fully functioning brain for Zen,,,not a zombie state.
2007-02-09 22:06:47 · answer #3 · answered by bob shark 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yeah, okay. But mastering something implies working towards it. If it's already there, if it's the nature of the thing, it's hardly mastering, is it?
2007-02-09 22:52:46 · answer #4 · answered by q 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
very interesting concept, i think it suggests the minute we are born we cease to be a master.
2007-02-09 22:04:27 · answer #5 · answered by glass. 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋