"Zazen comes to us from our teachers as the practice using all forms and all awareness as vehicles for the relinquishment of all forms and all awareness. This relinquishment must be total and does not allow for some detached, aware perspective to continue at all, much less be owned or cultivated. Through zazen, we don't seek to become 'fully functional human beings [Genpo Roshi, in Introducing Big Mind]', we seek to die to our human condition and be reborn as bodhisattvas: agents of compassionate impermanence."
It will be clear that in Advayavada Buddhism we do not share this understanding of enlightenment at all.
John Willemsens.
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