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15 de jun. de 2023 · While many religious doctrines are founded on the belief in a supreme deity, Zen Buddhism takes a different path. This intriguing branch of Buddhism, known for its meditation-centric approach, does not emphasize a divine figure. But does this mean that Zen Buddhism doesn’t believe in God?
- Why Zen Doesn’T Talk About God
- The Bleakness of A Worldview Without “Something Greater”
- A Sense of The Ineffable Is Important to Our Mental Health
- The Zen Teaching of It-With-A-Capital-I
- The Seeking Is Not Separate from What Is Sought
- How We Know This Isn’T Just Wishful Thinking
- Developing A Relationship with The Ineffable
In one of my favorite books, Why Religion Matters,Huston Smith writes, “The reality that excites and fulfills the soul’s longing is God by whatsoever name. Because the human mind cannot come within light-years of comprehending God’s nature, we do well to follow Rainer Maria Rilke’s suggestion that we think of God as a direction rather than an objec...
For a moment, I’m going to set aside discussion of Zen, and return to my hero, Huston Smith. In Why Religion Matters, Smith makes a convincing case that all human beings operate within a worldview of some kind. Even if you don’t think you “believe” in anything, you still have a worldview, and it profoundly affects everything you do. Smith describes...
I included Smith’s comparisons of pre- and post-scientific worldviews not because I am going to formulate a Zen worldview for you (that’s a huge topic and I want to stay focused on the Ineffable). Instead, I brought them up because I wanted to point out how bleak human life can appear once we’ve been converted to the scientific worldview. This conv...
However, if we don’t actually believe the traditional worldview, we don’t get to just “go back” to it in order to make ourselves feel better. What can we do? Fortunately, Zen offers us some beautiful teachings about That-Which-Is-Greater, how It pervades our lives with meaning, and how we can directly experience It. To adequately explore these teac...
Dogen asks us to consider where how this bodhi-mind arises. We are a flow of Being through time, shaped by countless causes and conditions, so what inspires us to look beyond what we think we know? “We” can’t be ultimately located, so who (or what) summons the will to awaken? Dogen suggests the bodhi-mind arises because of Inmo itself, which is not...
So far, our discussion has been philosophical. Inevitably, purely philosophical discussions about Inmo get convoluted, and unconvincing. This is why Zen masters throughout the centuries have slapped their students on the head with slippers, or uttered apparently non-sequitur phrases that called the student’s attention to the nearest tree or cup of ...
Despite my appreciation for Huston Smith’s discussion of worldviews, I hesitate to use the words “view” or “worldview” when talking about Zen. This is because Zen is about shedding all views and experiencing reality directly. It’s not very helpful to adopt and hold on to a view – for example, to listen to this episode, form a view of the Ineffable,...
27 de ago. de 2014 · Zen’s “theological equivalent” for God is the state of satori or void. The state of “unknowing,” the void, is the only truth and the only “God” As noted, while Zen denies the existence of the Christian God, it will use the term God to describe Zen meditation, enlightened Zen practices and the state of satori itself.
7 de abr. de 2018 · The Role of Gods and Deities in Buddhism. Are there Gods, or aren't there? Tony Burns/Lonely Planet Images/Getty Images. By. Barbara O'Brien. Updated on April 07, 2018. It is often asked if there are gods in Buddhism. The short answer is no, but also yes, depending on what you mean by "gods."
Buddhist teachings state that there are divine beings called devas (sometimes translated as 'gods') and other Buddhist deities, heavens, and rebirths in its doctrine of saṃsāra, or cyclical rebirth. Buddhism teaches that none of these gods is a creator or an eternal being, though they can live very long lives.
Zen is grounded in the rich doctrinal background of East Asian Mahayana Buddhism. Zen doctrinal teaching is thoroughly influenced by the Mahayana Buddhist teachings on the bodhisattva path, Chinese Madhyamaka , Yogacara , the Prajñaparamita literature, and Buddha nature texts like the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra and the Nirvana sutra.
Some Buddhists believe in God and some do not. But I think the ultimate object of inquiry in Buddhist practice can be called God if we choose to call it God. Dogen Zenji, the founder of the order of Buddhism that I belong to, preferred not to name it at all. He just called it “it.”
