<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n J. asks: I want to ask about non-dual practice in relation to \u201cresistance.\u201d It seems to me that mindfulness itself is inherently non-dual. Therefore, when we single out something that is a \u201cproblem\u201d such as \u201cresistance\u201d and try to do away with it\u2026haven\u2019t we left zazen? (Or ego? Or mind?)<\/span><\/p>\n I ask it because many teachers seem to, to me anyway, paint resistance in a corner as a bad thing that must go\u2026how can one really practice like this?<\/span><\/span> Kind Regards, J.<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n Dosho\u2019s response:\u00a0From my perspective, mindfulness is inherently dualistic because with mindfulness there is a subject viewing an object. Maybe you mean something different by that word. As the mind settles more and more in zazen, it can be seen how subtle the dualistic mind is. Every moment of awareness seems to be tangled in I and thou. A mind being not-quite-full of something.\u00a0<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here\u2019s Rilke (one Katagiri-roshi\u2019s favorite poets) framing the issue:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We never have pure space in front of us,<\/p>\n not for a single day, such as flowers open<\/p>\n endlessly into. Always there is world,<\/p>\n and never the Nowhere without the Not: the pure,<\/p>\n unwatched-over, that one breathes and<\/p>\n endlessly knows, without craving. As a child<\/p>\n loses itself sometimes, one with the stillness, and<\/p>\n is jolted back. Or someone dies and is it.<\/p>\n Since near to death one no longer sees death,<\/p>\n and stares ahead, perhaps with the large gaze of the creature.<\/p>\n Lovers are close to it, in wonder, if<\/p>\n the other were not always there closing off the view\u2026..<\/p>\n As if through an oversight it opens out<\/p>\n behind the other\u2026\u2026But there is no<\/p>\n way past it, and it turns to world again.<\/p>\n Always turned towards creation, we see<\/p>\n only a mirroring of freedom<\/p>\n dimmed by us. Or that an animal<\/p>\n mutely, calmly is looking through and through us.<\/p>\n This is what fate means: to be opposite,<\/p>\n and to be that and nothing else, opposite, forever.<\/p>\n J. asks: I want to ask about non-dual practice in relation to \u201cresistance.\u201d It seems to me that mindfulness itself is inherently non-dual. Therefore, when we single out something that is a \u201cproblem\u201d such as \u201cresistance\u201d and try to do away with it\u2026haven\u2019t we left zazen? (Or ego? Or mind?) I ask it because many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n![](\"https:\/\/tbn0.google.com\/images?q=tbn:mSnuAnzXWyRR2M:www.wildmind.org\/images\/sisyphus.gif\")
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