The Ten Perfections

Introduction of Encouragement

The work of life is always with your self and your responses (reactions) to what happens. We are supported by other information and sometimes, perhaps often are clouded and distracted by so-called supportive information. It sometimes replaces our own experience. And yet, we need encouragement much like a baby needs encouragement, "yes, yes, you can do it." The Ten Prefections are "yes, yes" encouragements. They help us get into a pose that encourages "doing no harm."

In Zen the focus of the work is with how you respond and react to what comes into your sense field. There are 6 senses:
1)seeing, 2) hearing, 3) touching, 4) tasting, 5) smelling and
6) thinking. We might also want to add that we often combine these senses as ways of being in the world.

There are countless ways to see the path. And it is often difficult to know what awakens one self to this the path beneath our own two feet. What helps us look down and see where we are and what we are doing? These ten perfections can help us do that...they can help us take a look at the footprint we are making, the pattern we express.

Human development is conditioned and absolute; both individual and beyond the individual. The conditioned and the mundane often dominate leaving the fabric of reality obscured by personal and often self-centered wishes and fears. These ten perfections help us clear up what we are conditioned to do and provide a way to help us liberate.

There is no goal; the practice is a goal-less goal. It is based on experience of how and what we see and is verified or not or confirmed or not by a teacher. This process of confirmation of actual resonance of awareness in the mundane world protects against solipsism. Your experience in your mind is not the only experience. The Ten Perfections reflect the Buddha Dharma and we can clear up some foggy notions about our conditoned mind.

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