The first veil is the delusion by different experiences.
This means the cognitive distortion which occurs by different
experiences(personal emotional experiences). The second
veil is the delusion by the same class. This is the cognitive
distortion by the difference of culture. The last veil
is the life and death mind. This means the fear of death.
By removing the first two veils and by facing death without
anxiety, in other words, overcoming the shackles of organism(body),
one reaches complete freedom from cognitive distortion.
This is reality as it is(Bhutathata) subject-object congruence,
perfect empathy without distortion(projection).
In Zen Buddhism you have to make a 360 degrees transformation
to reach your true nature(reality) (Fig. 5).
When you
start at zero point, mountain is mountain, water is
water. At 180 degrees mountain is not mountain, water
is not water. When you ask your client(analysand or
patient) to report whatever comes into his or her mind,
he or she will report the negative feelings which were
repressed in the past. At this stage both the negative
and the positive feelings are partially repressed. However,
if the client pours out the negative feelings he or
she had to repress in the past, he or she will be aware
of the hostility to the degree of killing his or her
mother, etc. At 180 degrees, the client will say “I
want to kill my mother.” This is the stage of “Mountain
is not mountain, water is not water,” the complete reversal
of value. Love turns into hate.
If you pour out all the negative feelings toward your
mother and understand the reason for hate, you start
to feel the love you received from your mother. If you
accept the hate and love without disguise and understand
the reason, there is no love and no hate. This is the
complete acceptance of both negative and positive feelings.
Mountain is mountain, water is water again. This is
a 360 degrees transformation and reality(inner and outer)
without disguise or projection(Fig. 5).
Bojo who is a Zen master in 12th C. in Korea mentioned
testing the results of Tao practice in the following
way. The ripened Tao means the resolution of love and
hate towards the past object. Complete liberation means
no love and no hate towards the new object. At this
stage you have only compassion without love and hate
towards any particular object.
He also introduced three profound gates as the methods to cure 10 diseases of Zen practice. The first
gate is to understand the highest scriptural teaching(theory) as conceptual knowledge. The second
gate is to forget the theory, focusing on “here and now” through Zen dialogue. This is the perception
of “here and now”(outer reality). The 3rd and the most profound gate is cutting by silence for a while,
complete silence, striking with a stick, shouting, pounding the table, etc. This aims at the perception of inner reality.
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