He’s Just Had Coffee

“Simply put, from my view, Zen’s approach to the Ego, or the many voices that constitute the relative (small) self has been to kill it, crush it, see through it, dissolve it, release it - that sort of thing, but not to engage it. Roshi has essentially flipped things 180 degrees, and instead of spending decades trying to burn down the house of “me”, he’s made a surprising discovery: If you go to the front door and knock, the ego will answer. If you ASK to be let in, it will let you in. If you ASK it for access to the all the various rooms in the mansion, and INCLUDE it, it will cooperate. 2500 years of trying to kill the ego hasn’t worked yet. The ego is stronger than ever, and I would venture a guess that as its bio-materal apparatus has evolved and increasingly interfaced with ever more subtle forms of entertainment, communication, and various stimulus, it is the most inventive, slippery phantasms in the Kosmos. And that’s cool.”

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