Here you are at another Note at the beginning of another Note Session.   And this beginning reflects your own starting point, your own place of beginning within yourself that creates all your trips, all your attempts to escape or keep busy or get to some personal achievement, whether the achievement is to be mundane or other-worldly.  Therefore as we go along the idea will be to not leave this beginning, this starting point, whether outwardly or inwardly, but to illuminate it.

The illumination of the starting point is what is called “beginner’s mind” in Zen.  You may have heard about this.  The real meaning is that “advanced practitioners” build up knowledge and various experiences over the years in their dedicated attempts to practice Zen and gain enlightenment, but they do not become enlightened because they seek an enlightenment away from and beyond their starting point, beyond their “beginner’s mind”.  Enlightenment is the illumination of our starting point.  Try to actually understand this before going on a Zen trip or any other seemingly significant traditional trip.

This note requires illumination of your starting point to flare-up with greater intensity whether you are sitting, standing, going about or lying down.  It has very little to do with sitting in a rigid approved sitting posture and calling that rigidity an “enlightened expression of your self-nature”.  Such traditional Japanese recommendations are nothing more than the shit of domesticated dogs.  Any “enlightened expression of self-nature” is innately free, unpredictable, natural and impossible for imitators to conform to.  Your real opportunity is to illuminate your starting point and avoid traditional Zen and useless rigid conformity to Japanese idiots with bald heads and black robes.  Strangely, however, adopting this illumination of your starting point is what real Zen has always been about.  So, make sure you are doing real Zen before the next note or the universe may have to take some action about you as an awful Power!

You cannot actually decide to illuminate your starting point or avoid such illumination.  Zen Power alone decides about illumination or avoiding illumination.   The next note is now mysteriously available if it is needed for something.

Zen Power is the aspect of Power that is engaged in the sudden illumination of where you are really coming from in all this.

Forget about “Zen Power” and penetrate your starting point totally without further delay.   Do not read the next note, if you know what is good for you!  This is no idle threat.

This note decrees that you obviously do not know what is good for you.

Since you have decided you are your own Teacher now with some sort of “free will” of your own decisions, go write yourself a “note” before you read the next note.

To paraphrase the French poet, Rimbaud: “I piss on your Note from a great height!”

You have no choice whatsoever about your sudden predicament here that all this has been leading you into for a long time.   So, try to avoid reading the next note.

“Curiosity killed the cat.”  How do you interpret this old saying in your immediate predicament about Notes?

The next note session is probably something more stimulating about your starting point to help you feel you can really belong to the way of sudden Zen enlightenment without having to visit a Zen monastery.

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