Several years ago, when I was very new to Zen practice, I was facing a difficult decision about a job. I took the question with me into dokusan, the private interview with the teacher. We're told that the interview should be about practice, or questions about dharma, and I don't know why I thought the teacher would help me make a job decision. But, I guess I figured bringing it up wouldn't hurt.
So I asked what I should do, and all he said was, "trust yourself."
It sounds so simple, right? Just trust yourself! But of course, in struggling to do that I waded into swamps and mires and bogs of confusion. How do you trust yourself when, in fact, you don't really trust yourself? And given that this same teacher was telling us the "self" is an illusion, what "self" do you trust? And who is doing the trusting? Ack!
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Trusting Yourself originally appeared on About.com Buddhism on Monday, February 28th, 2011 at 12:41:52.
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