Let me tell you about my journey through 35 years of Zen practice

2 Towaway69 1 8/2/2025, 5:50:49 PM aeon.co ↗

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Towaway69 · 12m ago
> Eventually, you stop trying to be elsewhere. You begin to realise the Way was never hidden up a mountain. It’s right here, buried far beneath your own ideas about who you should be.

An honest account of engaging with Zen Buddhism. Particularly interesting is that the author breaks with the conventional thinking that enlightenment is worth striving for.

The author tries to present a more lenient form of how to practice Buddhism.