The way the heart is drawn

It seems like you've been learning about Zen through books, etc.
Learning through letters is one thing, but it's also important to listen directly to the conversation. I think it's also important to go to a Zen temple that does zazen, etc., and listen to stories about Zen. I think that will deepen our understanding. After that, I recommend actually doing zazen meditation.

The mind itself is not something you can directly see or touch.
Therefore, we have adjusted our minds by putting our heart into various forms.
For example, it can be said that most cultures with “the road,” such as tea ceremony and kendo, are cultures that aim to adjust the mind through acquiring that form.

So zazen isn't the only way to adjust your mind.

However, I think there is a certain common mechanism among the various ways to adjust one's mind.
If I had to say something about that...
The first thing to do is take care of your surroundings. There is no need for anything physically superfluous.
Next, it is important to adjust your posture, breathing, etc., in other words, your own body.
If your form isn't in order in everything, and if there are useless movements, your mind won't work either.
Then focus on what's in front of you and don't think about anything superfluous.
If you do that, I think your mind will naturally improve.

Roughly many people try to attain enlightenment and try to ❝ adjust their minds ❞.
There are many books in the world that explain how to adjust one's mind as Zen books.
However, there is a big catch here.
I would like you to focus on the act itself of trying to “adjust.” One action is being done there. When you start a movement saying “let's do it,” a mess occurs because of that.
“Let's adjust our minds.” It sounds beautiful.
However, I would like you to carefully consider and see through what is actually being done in your heart.
This mind and body are originally attaining Buddhahood, and it is originally the body and mind (enlightenment) of falling out, and without artificial entanglement, humans are always supreme, helpless, and at peace.
Humans are more at ease when they don't have good theories or ideas.
Stepping on the accelerator in an attempt to do so from now on will naturally work.
By stepping on the accelerator for brain action, artificial ego energy begins to be poured into it.
It means driving along a path of thought and discernment, and it can be said that it is the image of driving a car on the exact opposite path of the Buddha at the same time.
When people don't deserve peace, enlightenment, or the benefits of Buddhism, the biggest “preset” that prevents them from moving towards enlightenment is teasing and making settings, saying “this would be better,” in order to realize it.
A snowy landscape without human footprints is very clean snow.
If this were to become a Buddha or enlightenment, it is a natural and clean snowy landscape because there are no footprints of people.
As soon as you touch or step in so as not to damage the natural snowy landscape, artificial marks will stick to it.
If you are learning Zen from now on, I would like you to think carefully about this reason.
The Zen books of the world and famous Buddhist scholars all preach plausible logic.
If you keep applying that medicine, the pain of life, old age, illness, and death does not go away from the ground up, there are cases where that medicine is a counterfeit product.
I will strongly say from my own experience of failure that there are many cases in the Zen and Buddhist industries where even a good argument or plausible argument is not actually saved, the argument itself is wrong, and the person who interpreted it is wrong.
Buddhism is not about learning theory, logic, or theory.
We recommend that you only seek reliable teachings that will save you.

Align. It seems that this is a Zen monk's word (poem), but I read it and said, “It was done!” So much so that I think.
It seems that the school principal often uses it at morning gatherings, but it is often misinterpreted, so I recommend reading something as close to the original as possible.

The rest... is to do it or not.