These means – dreams, fantasies, visions, active imagination, etc. Thus does Jung also claim that it is “only by indirect means” that we may come to know the unconscious. Their relationship is at best vis-à-vis, a dualistic encounter or dialogue (as observable in Jung’s Philemon dialogues). Consequently, their relationship cannot feature the experience of oneness that is intrinsic to mysticism. Jung believed that the ego and the unconscious Self are distinctly separate entities. In Jung’s early thought, it is evident that the concept of self-realisation contrasts sharply with the Eastern concept and with mystical thinking in general. The experience of the mind’s union or oneness with the world and God is something Jung cannot see as happening directly and is what differentiates psychology from mysticism.CW 11 p.
#DEFINE ZEN KOAN FULL#
To be enlightened means ‘The full awakening of the the total personality to reality.’ Fromm Early Jung and Mysticism He who awakes is open and responsive to the world, and he can be open and responsive because he has given up holding on to, and thus has become empty and ready to receive himself as a thing. He is aware of it not as of an object over there which he grasps with his thought, but it, the flower, the dog, the man, in its, or her, full reality. In psychological terms, it is a state in which the person is completely tuned to the reality outside and inside of him, a sate in which he is fully aware of it and fully grasps it. Theologically, the principle of Grace, of God giving his favour to humanity, makes possible the incarnation of God’s spirit in the world, a process symbolised through the figure of Christ. Satori is comparable to ‘the state of grace,’ a state of mind where everything is perceived as flowing from God. Satori is simply the disillusionment or transcendence of the ego’s perspective of itself as other than the world and the world as other than the absolute, the Unconscious or God. Satori is not an abnormal state of mind it is not a trance in which reality disappears. We need an ego, a well developed one, in order to survive and also in order to experience Satori. SatoriĬontrary to what some believe Satori is not the dissolution or abolishment of the ego. The awakening of the ego to its true nature is known in Buddhism as enlightenment, in Zen as satori. Panentheism holds that all is within God. Once the ego “wakes up” and becomes conscious of what was formerly unconscious, God has found himself that is, the ego has discovered that its essential nature was always of God. The part that is hiding is what we call the unconscious, but it is only hidden or unconscious for as long as the ego remains unconscious of it. The part of himself that forgets he is God, the part that is seeking himself, is the ego. He is playing hide-and-go-seek with himself through us. So in Hindu and Buddhist teachings God must be everywhere if he is anywhere at all. Suzuki on occasion calls it the “Cosmic Unconscious.” Yet it is also our own unconscious, our higher Self. The Unconscious in Zen is, simply put, the mind of the cosmos. When Hui-neng speaks of the Unconscious in Consciousness, he steps beyond the unconscious as understood by psychology." As Suzuki comments, “In Zen Buddhism the unconscious is not a psychological term neither in the narrow or broader sense… It is fundamentally different from the psychologist's unconscious.
However, the Zen conception of the unconscious clearly differs from that of Western psychology. One may find it discussed at length in the teachings of such early Chinese Zen masters as Hui-neng (A.D. Suzuki writes, “the concept of the unconscious is the foundation of Zen Buddhism. That Zen is first and foremost a way of understanding the unconscious is overlooked by many people. This aim is fundamentally achieved through the practice of Zazen or silent meditation. This difference between intellectual and experiential knowledge is of central importance for Zen. This insight into one’s own nature is not an intellectual one, standing outside, but an experiential one, being inside, as it were. 'Zen is the art of seeing into the nature of one’s own being it is a way from bondage to freedom it liberates our natural energies it prevents us from going crazy or being crippled and it impels us to express our faculty for happiness and love.’ Suzuki The essence and final aim of Zen is the experience of enlightenment or Satori. Zen,Mysticism, the Unconscious, Koans and Jung.
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