Zen Buddhist tradition has it that the ultimate spiritual awareness, the true goal of our devotional study and work, is to experience a great emptiness: a condition in which we exist surrounded by nothing but what we in the Christian tradition might call “God-ness.” This is doubtless a perfect intention, but paradoxical, as if to say, “It would be better had you not begun to think” of the means to achieve salvation. Yet only by an effort of the mind can we conceive of this as a goal.
Perhaps it would be more helpful to describe the desired destination as “pure consciousness” — the goal of meditation. We might say that the idea of personal unity with God is not something we can understand or conceptualize, but only realize and experience. We can only realize God when our consciousness is not being distracted by anything else, even by the idea of God.
Truth needs no explanation. The point is to quit thinking and to simply be.
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