Zazen Is Good For Nothing - Just Sitting
Channel: Interior Mythos Journeys
Date: 2022-01-25

Managing human consciousness is a challenge, both personally and collectively.  The depth traditions of the East and the West evolved as postures and practices for the purpose of managing human consciousness.  Check this out next:  https://youtu.be/uFudZ9TiLVY

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After the disappearance of the founding principle or principal of these great traditions, it took less than 5 minutes for zealous followers to devolve the originating illumination and orientation into human morality, human fundamentalism, human literalism, human sentimentality, and human rationality. Today we ask, where is the depth?

Affluent members of the human species are now guiding us in consuming and entertaining ourselves to death. Our screen-driven, self-absorbed, externally-oriented, consciousness remains tantalized at the most superficial level attainable. The deep wisdom of the East and the West and the practitioners of disciplined consciousness are needed more than ever. The great depth traditions of the East and West need the insights of one another if they are to renew themselves and serve a complex contemporary world.

The cinematic art forms of Interior Mythos Journeys are born in the vortex at the confluence of the deep currents of East and West. It is the mission of Interior Mythos Journeys to deliver these timeless, universal, and changeless depth messages to this present moment.

Full interview with Abbot Shohaku Okumura:  https://youtu.be/jzdYzu2236Q 

Our Mission: The curriculum of Interior Mythos Journeys is a quest to explore contemporary mythic language that is in harmony with the 21st Century, Global, Quantum Scientific, and Universal Reality in which we all actually live.  Learn more at https://interiormythos.com/

As we solitarily and collectively claim the force of a relevant contemporary mythos, we are delivered to the possibility of life-lived-in-depth, the possibility of authentic life. This is the path beneath the surface.

The Transformative Encounter: The Practice of Contemplation

In the current age this transformative encounter, as well as the practices that deliver us to this encounter and the personal connection that flows from this encounter, is seldom the focus of our lives. Many of us wander disoriented through life, often on a self-destructive path, in a world seen, understood, and measured primarily by the external environment. We are disconnected from the Connecting Myth. We are disconnected from the interior depth to which the Connecting Myth might deliver us. Ironically, we have come to understand myth as a lie rather than a symbolic and metaphoric gateway to a deeper truth.

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