' Be Before Thinking '...

"Putting aside all concerns, shed all attachments.

Do nothing at all.

Don’t fabricate any things with the six senses.

If you want to clarify the mind-ground, give up your jumble of limited knowledge and interpretation, cut off thoughts of usualness and holiness, abandon all delusive feelings.

Although the ancient Teachings are a long-standing means to clarify the mind, do not read, write about, or listen to them obsessively because such excess only scatters the mind.

Now think of what is without thought.

How can you think of it?

Be Before Thinking.

This is meditation."




Keizan Jōkin, also known as Taiso Jōsai Daishi,
is considered to be the second great founder of the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan