SEEING ONE’S (TRUE) NATURE
KENSHŌ
It represents the mystical experience, the experience of oneness, of seeing our true nature, emptiness, the absolute, whatever you want to call it.
Ken means “seeing”.
shō means “nature, essence”.
About Kenshō, paraphrasing from the written works attributed to the First Patriarch of Zen, Bodhidharma, the patriarch writes that if a person without Kenshō constantly tries to make his thoughts free and unattached, he commits a great transgression against the Dharma. He winds up in the passive indifference of empty emptiness, no more able to distinguish good from bad than a drunken man. If you want to put the Dharma of non-activity into practice, you must bring an end to all your thought-attachments by breaking through to Kenshō. Unless you have Kenshō, you can never achieve a state of non-doing.
Kenshō is a state of letting go, releasing who you think you are and dwelling in your true self
References ans Supporting links:
- Kenshō - Wikipedia
- Pineal Gland—A Spiritual Third Eye: An Odyssey of Antiquity to Modern Chronomedicine - paper by Kumar R, Arushi Kumar & Jayesh Sardhara - Indian Journal of Neurosurgery
- Correlation between Pineal Activation and Religious Meditation Observed by Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging - by Chien-Hui Liou, Chang-Wei Hsieh, Chao-Hsien Hsieh, Si-Chen Lee, Jyh-Horng Chen & Chi-Hong Wang - Nature Precedings
- Zen and the brain: mutually illuminating topics - James H. Austin - Department of Neurology, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Denver, CO, USA
- Yoga & the Pineal Gland: Stability and Ecstasy - Sadguru