Furthermore
From the earliest of times when our ancestors were
hunter-gatherers, the Zen phenomenon has existed. The instinct to know and
understand, that which is beyond our own experience, has always existed in some
form. These instincts were essential for survival for to get them wrong could
have meant starvation and death. When the human race started to become farmers,
these instincts were no more required in such great measure. It is because we
no longer need to use these abilities for survival, that they use has become
largely lost. But these abilities are innate and are still within us all lying
dormant, waiting to be used.
The Zen processes are related to everything that is on this earth.
Nature's operation comes about through changes in the Ki system, but these
systems are controlled by the remarkable Zen phenomena. It knows all, it sees
all, it is all.
As mankind becomes further and further divorced from nature,
contact with the natural world seems to become irrelevant. Humankind has become
so obsessed with itself, that only the man made things and human structures
seem to be taken into consideration. This unfortunately means that these
abilities are not being developed and practiced. The loss of these abilities is
a dangerous omission from the learning of human beings.
This loss creates a vacuum which gives rise to mysticism,
superstition and religion. Whereas the Zen phenomena is pure and cannot be
tainted by the hand of man, a book only has words written inside and has no
instinct of its own. The words of a book can be subjected to interpretation by
fallible human beings who are quite capable of twisting and manipulating them,
to suit their own purposes. The World itself is pure; it is mankind that has
created good and evil, obsessed with the worship of its own form and image.
Nature has a way of balancing itself. The excesses of the human race are bringing about an imbalance that nature will have to readjust. If we do not 'understand' and 'know' what to do when this happens mankind is going to be in a lot of trouble.
