The Lankavatara Sutra - The Form and Formless

"You are Buddha, you are perfect and complete". Most of us would vehemently disagree... for good reason too. We spend lifetimes unconsciously creating fantasies about who we think we are. Just like if you took a dog and trained it to be a killer, there would be no surprise if that were to actually occur. But the dog's true essence is not a killer. We too have 'trained' ourselves to see life through certain filters and so our actions turn out to be direct responses to the distorted lens that we unconsciously created. To understand this, one simply needs a new way of looking. Zazen was created for this exact purpose...it is the ability to recognize the formlessness in the form. Right here, right now, a mental formation...does it contain anything at all?