Realization is your essential nature, and that nature means nothing. That nature is neither solid nor liquid. That nature is not hot nor cold. That nature is not beautiful, not ugly. That nature is not expansive, not limited.
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Questioner: Dear Acharya Ji, Pranam. Since we have started this month with Zen Koans, I have a few basic questions for my understanding.
A. What is Zen? B. How to read and reflect on Zen Koans? C. What is Zen practice or meditation?
Thank you.
Acharya Prashant: Zen is that which happens when you read the Zen Koans. Now see, you say that this month we have started with the Koans, and yet the Koans are nowhere in your question. You are asking about the Koans, you are asking about Zen, and you are missing the center. And whenever you do not want to enter that thing directly and instead prefer to go round about and round about and round about, as they say, beating about the bush, then you obviously miss.
Zen does not consist of asking about Zen. When the Koans are in front of you, go to them simply, directly, like an inquisitive, wondering child or like a desperate lover. Both of them have a certain directness. They do not have roundabout ways.
