誠 (Makoto) carries a ruthless simplicity. Sincerity. Undividedness. No daylight between what is seen and how one lives. Humans struggle with it not because it is complex, but because it leaves nowhere to hide. Without honesty, nothing coheres. Speech fractures from action. Intention drifts from impact. Identity becomes theater. Zuigan’s call points straight at this... “Master.” “Yes.” “Are you awake?” “Yes. Yes.” “Do not be deceived by the other.” “I will not.” The so-called

The most direct way I've found to stop thoughts from tailgating our life from behind is to open the hand of Attention. When Attention opens, thinking mind loses its outsized influence over us. We stop being pushed. We get to actually "Be here now." 一We Are the Practice Itself

What is the Matrix? It’s the system of thought that keeps authoring the identity you take to be so-called “you.”And in truth… literally, not figuratively — it’s likely that identity may not exist at all. The invitation of Zen… of Recovery from anxiety and the under developed relationship with so-called self? Don’t hand yourself over as a meat puppet for the mind to manipulate… to entertain itself through the character it calls “you.” Don’t you see it when you’re talking to yo

The eye cannot see the eye... because the eye is what seeing comes through. In the same way, Awareness cannot observe itself as an object. It is the Openness through which experience flows. Thoughts, thinking, and narratives appear within the field of Awareness like clouds, birds, or flashes of lightning in the sky. They come and go without direct invitation. But they never tear the sky. They occur to the ‘Observer,’ but aren’t the observer itself. Attention... the lens of Aw