Zen Attitude

They say attitude is everything, some say attitude is altitude, how much height it your attitude that much height is your life goes. Thiruvalluvar says “ vellathanaiya malar neitam manthar tham ullathanayathu uyarvu” the meaning, is how much the water level increase also the lotus blooms over the water similalrly the height of the life depend on our height of heart. So what is zen attitude? It’s nothing but a good attitude :)to talk in surface term. Actually zen attitude is having deep route in bodhidharman teachings. His attitude became the base for zen attitude.
Zen Attitude.
A Buddhist monk was in his monastery, there was an intolerable winter. The monk suddenly took the wooden statue of Buddha broken it and put it in fire pit, disciples was shocked, the monk reply was I want the inner Buddha to be alive. This is Zen Attitude. This is nothing but inner search, inner learning and inner peace. Bodhi Dharman often spoke about the cause and conditions. Buddha spoke about the cause and the effect. The difference is what is applicable in his home land might not be applicable in Chinese land but the silence and meditation is applicable universally. This is what BohiDharman told. This silence and meditation has no religious, language, sex and territory barriers. That’s why Zen Buddhism could able to spread much faster and wider than original Buddhism. So Zen attitude is nothing but commonsense attitude applying a simple formula called cause and conditions.
Why I am like this? Because you are in this environment and the condition is, you are not ready to change. So you are like this. How can I change? Search for the causes of change and why (condition) you want to change? Then change comes easily. This is what Zen attitude. In Zen attitude everything is mind related. A god could appear in flame and also in statue but in Zen a god could appear in you :) but how can u see that god? This is where Zen attitude comes. When u Sit silently slowly separate u and inner being then u can see the god in your inner being. So in Zen what u see in you need not to be god but something that make u calm. Once you are calm u could able to think well, perform well and progress well. So attitude arises from mind and from mind arise thoughts and from thoughts arises the actions. So Zen attitude is Zen action.
The action must depend on cause and effect from Buddha point of view but action could depend on the cause and conditions from Bodhi Dharman point of view. In both of their views cause is same but bodhi Dharman told about condition. A man sleeps in platform (effect) because he lost his home in flood (cause). A man sleeps in the platform (effect) because this place is warm and safe (condition) . He could have stayed in neighbor village but why he came to sleep here (this is condition). This explains the zen attitude of seeing things. A Zen attitude for policy makers will be soon he must be given n with brick houses in his village itself.:)