A. Each person’s ‘I’ is the most important. All that we do in our lives is nothing but to attempt to please and satisfy our ‘I’. Even sacrificing ourselves for someone else, although it may be called altruism, is a sort of way to please and satisfy our ‘I’. Feeling that we have succeeded in doing this, we feel happy and accomplished. When we fail to do so, we become unhappy and even frustrated.
However, what is regrettable is that we don’t know what the ‘I’ is whilst we regard it as the most important. That is why all our effort to please and satisfy it is fruitless although we are struggling to do it. The purpose of Zen meditation is to help to realise our ‘I’. To realise our ‘I’ is called enlightenment.
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