Beyond the Negations

When we practice zazen in the right way, this acceptance takes place. In the realm of Zen-mind, transmitted from Buddha to Buddha, from patriarch to patriarch, there is no noumena or phenomena, no subjectivity or objectivity, no object to be criticized or subject to be critical. Here we come to the true understanding of the so-called non-attachment or oneness-of-duality. In its true sense the Middle Way, which is beyond the Four Negative Propositions and One Hundred Negations, is not different from the transmitted way of zazen. This is the so-called 'Intention of Bodhidharma's coming to the West' or Shobogenzo Nehanmyoshin.

Excerpt immediatly follows yesterday's from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 64-11-00 as found on shunryusuzuki.com - from an edited lecture in an early Wind Bell -all Wind Bells and Suzuki lectures from Wind Bells.