Facing the Wall

Each practitioner has to SIT DOWN, facing his/her personal Wall, and LOOK at it.

Sitting down means STABILIZING YOUR MIND.

FACING THE WALL means to FOCUS on your own mind, as the object of concentration.

LOOKING means PENETRATING the Wall.


If you are skillful enough, you don´t need to physically sit down. You can "SIT" while walking. As long as you are able to keep a peaceful mind, you are SITTING.

Facing the wall means to keep your attention on your own mind.

Mind here means the SKANDAS.

Unless you focus on them, you will never know the root of suffering, and consequently, the wheel will keep turning.

Looking means penetrating, using INSIGHT to SEE the real nature of the wall.

If you don´t know how to Sit down your mind, you better find a master who can teach you. But remember that sitting is not enough.

After sitting, you have to face your wall and look at it.

Analyzing is not looking.

Thinking is not looking.

In fact, in order to SEE, you will have to CRACK your INTELLECTUAL MIND.

When you SEE, that is SATORI.

SEEING THE NATURE OF MIND IS SATORI.

But SATORI is not enough. You have to familiarizate yourself with it: that is REALIZATION.

Don´t fall asleep, or you will find the Kyoshaku on your back.

The Wall within the Cave

Welcome to this virtual Cave.

You are trapped, now.

If you look around, you´ll see nothing but four walls, the floor and the ceiling.

You got in here and now there is no way out...apparently.

Maybe its about time you face this old wall, and find the way out.

This is what all the Zen Patriarchs have done in the past,
and what all the Zen practitioners will have to do at some point,
in order to become Patriarchs.

This is not a gentle and soft way:
it is a tough one.

In fact, you will be pushed, kicked, shouted, beaten... in order
to keep you awake.

You can close your eyes, and imagine that you are not in this cave;
in fact, this is what you have been doing up until today.
Now you are awake, and you know that you have two options:
either you keep sleeping and daydreaming, or
you face this Old Wall in front of you and find a way out of this cave.

There is no standard method to follow.
It all depends on your karma.
My job is to help you out of the cave of ignorance.

By the way, my alias inside this cave is Hui Neng.

Whenever you open your eyes, you´ll see the Wall
of obscurations that you yourself have created
through your own ignorance, and I´ll be there
to kick you, so you don´t fall asleep again and
keep looking.

The rules are very simple:

Face the wall, and LOOK.

If you take it seriously, then you will SEE.

It is not about Thinking, Analyzing and Imagining.

It is only about LOOKING and SEEING.

I´ll be your worst enemy as long as you cling to your EGO.

I´ll be your best friend if you CUT your attachment to your EGO.

Remember: This is a way for warriors.

Good night if you go back to sleep.

Call me Kyoshaku if you want to FACE the WALL.