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Resting in the unborn –\nNew Kusen collection of Guy Mokuh\u014d Mercier<\/h2>\n
Resting in the unborn –RESTING IN THE UNBORN is the 3rd collection of Guy Mokuh\u014d Mercier\u2019s kusen. This booklet\u00a0 consists of five groups of kusen, delivered on\u00a0 various occasions, and a teisho on samsara, the\u00a0 wheel of life. The subject of this teisho has\u00a0 interested Guy Mokuh\u014d for a long time and his\u00a0 enthusiasm is infectious!<\/p>\n
As with the two previous collections, this 3rd booklet offers us a unique meeting\u00a0 between the subjects traditionally taught in zen and the particular way in which the\u00a0 author approaches them. To read Guy Mokuh\u014d\u2019s kusen is to enliven and invigorate\u00a0 our practice! Thanks to his teachings, we become particularly aware of the need to\u00a0 be conscious of our sensations. The booklet has about sixty paragraphs, in which\u00a0 Guy Mokuh\u014d refers to sensations. Here are two examples, which illustrate this perfectly. They appear in the first pages of the booklet 3.<\/p>\n
\u201cBringing your awareness to your sensations, following them as they spread out,\u00a0 and then disappear, is an instruction which allows us to come back into the flow of\u00a0 life, from moment to moment. The present moment is as it is, neither good nor\u00a0 bad.<\/em>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And a little further on:<\/p>\n
“The more we become One with sensation, the more we feel <\/em>life, which\u00a0 flows in heat, energy,, tension, waves, and the more<\/em> our field of\u00a0 consciousness widens until it simply disappears in<\/em> the sensation of\u00a0 being, which is not bodily. It isn\u2019t an exercise<\/em> which we can do just by\u00a0 personal will. We must let ourselves be.<\/em> The sensation of being -or to\u00a0 take up the Buddha\u2019s expression: <\/em>pure consciousness of the presence of self.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The more we become One with sensation, the more we feel life, which flows in heat,\u00a0 energy,, tension, waves, and the more our field of consciousness widens until it\u00a0 simply disappears in the sensation of being, which is not bodily. It isn\u2019t an exercise which we can do just by personal will. We must let ourselves be. The sensation of\u00a0 being -or to take up the Buddha\u2019s expression: pure consciousness of the presence of self What is more, coming back to the first quote, reading his kusen allows us to\u00a0 acknowledge that the present moment can only be pure: nothing is added, and it\u00a0 can only be felt, so, it cannot be willed.<\/p>\n
If I could sum up in one sentence what I felt after reading this collection of kusen, I\u00a0 would say that knowing that these teachings are available whenever I want to read\u00a0 them again means that I can ensure a constant source of spiritual nourishment. \u2022<\/p>\n
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