Gold Beyond the Edge

Gold Beyond the Edge

Dear Earth Beings,

Here is something for you to investigate in this moment, or perhaps for the rest of your life…

My spiritual Grandfather, Baba Credo Mutwa – High Sanusi, Sangoma and Spiritual Elder of the Zulu people was the great record keeper of the ancient stories of the African people. He wrote the first African Bible which speaks very clearly and articulately about the genesis of humanity.

Baba would teach through storytelling. In these stories was an invitation to the mystery to self-awareness and self-knowing. He once told me this story…

“The first creators and harvesters of Gold were initiated woman. Only initiated woman knew the secret of seeding and harvesting Gold.”

First, let us not forget that (at the time) the largest military manoeuvre occurred on planet earth to secure a certain volume of Gold by colonising forces. Before we had the miners, machinery and industrial equipment that would invade our beautiful mother and extract from her this pure substance we call Gold, without permission, for profit and benefit of self, for elevation and power, before all that, women would enter Mother Earth with their sacred ways. They would seed, cultivate and then harvest Gold in minuscule proportions – as medicine.

What was that activity?

It was a secret only known to initiated woman. I do not have the answer. I have been working on this ever since I heard this story.

As we are working through the Grounded Earth Advanced Training Module at BEZA, who or what is this Mother? This Gold that we adorn our shrines with? What is the seeding of your pea inside your bowl of soil and the harvesting of this life – the secret only known to the Yin, Feminine element? What were the initiated women doing in Mother Earth? How were they seeding and harvesting Gold. What is the secret of self-knowing behind the story?

The thin layer of soil that surrounds the Earth is 500 Billionths of the distance from the center to the edge of the Earth – soil’s thickness is 0,000000005% of Earth’s radius. That is how thin the soil layer is!

Who cares how thin the soil is?

You stand on a fraction of Earth’s spherical circumference – a fraction of the 500 billionths. On your feet you stand tall. The energies of this universe travel through you to the center of the Earth and through the center of the Earth into the heavens. You are a specific kind of conduit of energy. The conduit functions when you stand firmly in place, in the moment, on the very ground only you occupy right now. What is the functioning of your conduit – what is your Earthly function?

All life as we know it lives and occupies time and space on this very thin cuticle that surrounds Mother Earth. Every creature around you, every object, is definable or knowable by its edge. Without the edge we cannot see where it begins – what it is. That very edge gives you and the thing – the object or creature – the cognition of its particular kind of existence.

You have an edge. It is protecting, serving, creating definition and holds the definition of who it is you are. We do not pay attention to the edge. If the edge of things was not there, if your edge was not there, what would there be? Who would you be? That is the secret. Who are you without the edge?

Our thoughts have edges. Our stories have edges. Our way in the world manufactures, creates and proceeds through this life, acknowledging, responding and resisting, and integrating with all kinds of edges. Yet in this modern society, and new-age movement, we are all talking about oneness. What is this so called Oneness? Oneness of what?

All the work we do here at BEZA – all of it, is to invite you to the edge of what it is that you believe is creating your definition and purpose in this space and time that you are occupying right now – in this moment. There is a vitality to the function that only you can perform because only you are located on this membrane, as a membraned being, fulfilling a unique kind of function in that location. What is that function and in relation to who or what?

Only when the edge disappears may we know what that function is – what or who we are serving. When we go beyond the edge we connect to all of it, to it all, and become it. As a result of the disappearance of the membrane, we know something (even if it is only that which is waiting just beyond the edge of what we know). In that which we have suddenly woken up to beyond our borders we discover we have a particular function related to what is complete and whole. We now have relevancy, and pay homage to the whole and serve the whole for we see we are part of the whole.

When we do not know the whole, we have no idea of who it is we are. We do not know our edge and so therefore we do not know our function. Not knowing our function, our purpose, what are we doing, actually? What are we practicing, protecting and serving? What is our particular form and function within and in relation to the whole?

It is only when going into the edge, and in seeing the edge, that we have this profound opportunity of letting go of the edge – to see the edgeless, wholeness of this life. When we become and immerse ourselves in the no-edge, only then can we really embrace and know what and how the edge serves. Do you know really know your edge? If you do, you would know your edgeless-ness – your wholeness.

Second, let us remember we have an aura. Aura means ‘lights of gold’. The symbol for gold is Au. Ra is light or ray. Our auras connect, merge and become one with the auras of all beings. Is this what Baba Mutwa is pointing to when he says, “The first creators and harvesters of Gold were initiated woman. Only initiated woman knew the secret of seeding and harvesting Gold.”

Let us do it. Let us go to the edge. In the Earth Module training offered at BEZA we encourage apprentices to go to a tree in the morning, in the afternoon or once a week. They are going to the edge. The collection of all the story ritual items that they have been putting into their bowl is going to the edge. Coming to meditation in the morning, is coming to the edge. Coming to Community Council is coming to the edge.

What edge are you going to? Whatever edge it is just go there – however you want to do that.

See what is there. And then go beyond – let it go.

You will find your true self, peace and purpose on the other side.

Nangaku

 

AmaXhosa

Golden Heart Speak

“Molweni BoMama, ninjani?,” was not just my way of practicing to speak isiXhosa, it was a moment in time, a fleeting opportunity to connect and embrace the unwavering love that poured out of earthy women.

Each word I spoke was the golden thread from my heart to theirs – a homecoming. As I observed the AmaXhosa wives humbling themselves to their land with such grace and might, I was introduced to the African woman in me.

My bones knew this language, not only of the richness of the AmaXhosa tongue, but a familiar body dialect, spoken by millions of our people, and one I too have spoken perhaps many life times ago.

In that moment, many of my unfinished stories were told. The flaxen thread had woven itself into my journey and I knew from here on I would never, ever stand alone.

Goddesses of the Earth I call to you and I sing to you my heart’s song.

One day, during a visit to the former headman Dilikile, and his wife Nonikhele, I sat on the floor next to Mama Nonikhele. Gently gazing over, so as not to stare, I noticed her unique head dress, the beads around her ankles, her precious feet and graceful presence. I wanted to be there next to her forever.

She felt tired to me. Old and incredibly beautiful. Not the kind of beauty of the sanitized world, but with a gravity and wholeness – the way that she was.

Beautiful.

An ancient knowing, grounded, song-of-the-soil kind of beauty that I don’t think I will ever find the words or poetry to describe.

No words needed, I sat next to her. My body harmonized with hers and tears streamed down my cheeks. My heart bowed to her and my lips curled with joy and admiration.

She was something of an art piece.

She was Mother Earth to me, like the sweet smell of rain on the ground, so delicate and vulnerable yet carrying a hearty, weighty, sense of belonging.

She represented everything.

My ancestors sang and danced with me all the way as I returned to the village I had left behind. I came home, not the same woman I was when I left.

I was now embedded in the tapestry of my country, braided into the ground and clay.

A taste of what South Africa truly is, her richness and humility.

I have made my way back to me, my peace, my truth and dedicated heart.

A prayer to the Maidens and Matriarchs, the Mamas and the Gogos. Our African ancestry. The Queens and Mothers in all of us. I am grateful, I am here and I am home. Open heart, open hands, and with love always.

Written by: Raine Waring

Photography: Thulani Swartbooi

Coalition of Sovereign Love

Coalition of Sovereign Love

Coalition of Sovereign Love

From my Heart to yours,

2024 is the first year in recorded history when more than 50% of the world’s population (some 4 billion of us) have the opportunity to choose which power structures best represent our will. Regardless of actual turnout, pollsters all agree that 2024 will smash the record for number of votes cast internationally in a single year. Of what significance could this be to you?

These are revolutionary times evidenced by the speed of change occurring before us – technologically, environmentally, socially, economically, politically, and yes spiritually! The younger generation is keeping pace with this revolution, if not fuelling it. The older generation – the gatekeepers of power – with more life behind them than in front, appear to be holding on to it for now – but only just.

2024 is a global inflection point. The real value of trendy political sloganostra is worth less than the paper or pixels they occupy. Old narratives with power brokers purporting to be endowed with solutions succumb to a sort of habitual perpetualism synonymous of samsara.

Revolution, on the other hand is always risky. It flirts with unpredictable unknowns. In hindsight, revolutions expose the brittle bond linking the various carriages of ideological paradigm-trains together – that of the public’s trust. While this sacred trust is at an all-time low universally (an indictor of potential revolution) let us not underestimate the global forces at play here, and abroad.

As the world’s population votes this year, a ridiculous game of chicken is being played out on the world’s stage. The US/EU/NATO’s ‘Maintain-at-all-Cost’, unipolar, dominant, western ideological train barrels towards the oncoming BRICS’s “Change-at-all-Cost’, multipolar, power redistribution train. Does South Africa (and by extension you) find itself tied in and to the middle of this track as we await news of a coalition government?

With the prevailing pundits suggest a Government of National Unity as the ideal, they intelligently caution its impractically, predisposing it to failure! Will you, as a South African and global citizen, via the government we democratically inherited, veer right ideologically (map-left toward the unipolar dominance of western ideology), or veer left (map-right toward the east-driven demand for a multipolar, countervailing force for the risky alternatives of unknown change)? A Zen Master once said to me as I questioned alternatives, “Move and you will be a lost ghost for a thousand years!” I trusted him and the opportunity my conundrum offered. I trust these now too. Without choosing left or right how would you respond? How would you create a self-governance system within yourself to rebuild the sacred trust for unity?

Whenever there is a conundrum – we find it only in the mind – a mind with a pre-existing condition intent on reconstituting our compendium of narratives. When the mind cannot comprehend, solve or reconstitute, at best, it surrenders. Worst, it revolts – often violently. Perhaps your heart is patiently waiting for your surrender, and perhaps for just such a moment.

Nowhere in South Africa’s Constitution or Bill of Rights, nor in the manifestos of over 50 political parties and independents who contested the recent election, have I heard or seen the word LOVE. Aren’t we essentially constituted love? Would you fuse or unite with who or what you don’t love?

This I know to be true – Love is the ultimate unifier; Love dissolves all edges as it celebrates diversity; Love gets down to the basic fundamentals of this life – to the heart in the matter. I wonder, have we reduced Love to a four word?

Coalition means union, or fusion. Yoga means union too! Zen… not two (self and other are One), or as we South Africans like to spout – Ubuntu (I am because you are). Can you imagine a Government of National Yoga or Zen? Perhaps an effective GNU (in you and the country) could bring the eastern and western halves of ourselves together and avoid a nuclear catastrophe?

If we are not each able to quell the obstinance of the old narratives residing in our own ideological minds we may push our collective minds into violent con-fusion.  Rather, let each of us be the revolution, be the most risky thing possible, and go beyond the edges of narrative and our limited understanding, by Being-the-Edge.

Entering this edgeless terrain we will find an infinite supply of true love, and consequently our True North. Let us each love practically, ferociously, uncompromisingly – everyday, everyone, and every aspect of ourselves – even the most unloving nature we all, in some way, harbour.

If we each did this, in every possible moment would be the most powerful vote. 2024 would simply be four numbers on a calendar. We would not need to cast ballots to (hopefully) choose government representatives to re-present our love. We would instead present love as our very selves. We would be sovereign in our own empowerment presenting our truth, our very presence. We would be our own government – a constituted and Embodied Enlightenment – Ubuntu and Unity.

Not for the feint of heart, the ride of your life on Love’s Trackless Train awaits. Its station is everywhere, hidden in plain sight. Remember you can’t get on where you get off. It never arrives, and never departs. There are no obsessive log keepers, pundits, analysts or bean-counters on its Middle Way.  This train has no need for records.

This is the state of Nirvana. The price? All your fears.

Nangaku

Circle of Connection

Circle of Connection

Healing the Masculine and Feminine

To heal the pain in any existing divide between the masculine and feminine, and give practical expression to this Heart-Mind Way, Nangaku from BEZA and Svenja Krauer – an Alchemist of Change, invite you to a monthly online community council gathering called Circle of Connection.

Through the practice of speaking and listening from the heart, we invite you to participate in exploring the divine duality and unity of the Masculine and Feminine.

Collectively we aim to explore pathways for healing the divide and regenerate into newly constituted relationships of mutual support and empowerment.

Gather on the Third Thursday of every month.

You are invited to join the first Council on 22 August!

For integrity and sincerity in this special container, all participants must attend Council Training where we adopt safety protocols and agreements (all those who have already been trained in Community Council through BEZA are welcome to attend).

Financial commitment:

We suggest an affordable sliding scale between R100 and R300 per month, which will be stockpiled and used towards our bi-annual in-person gatherings. It also supports you in remaining committed to the monthly meetings

To heal the pain in any existing divide between the masculine and feminine, and give practical expression to this Heart-Mind Way, Nangaku from BEZA and Svenja Krauer – an Alchemist of Change, invite you to a monthly online community council gathering called Circle of Connection.

“Nature depends on the merging of polarity for it to regenerate. Polarities, when fused create diversity. Unity and diversity owe their existence to each other. Unity is diversity, and diversity is unity, or: the Absolute is the Relative, and the Relative is the Absolute. The Middle Way of Zen and Daoism: Yin is Yang, Yang is Yin.”

Relative gender identification is a manifestation of the mind’s dual functioning. The simplicity of our primal human brain evolved into reliance and dependancy on the complexities of the now modern mind. As our collective minds define the intricacies of function and roles in a highly specialised world, so too has it conflated these into complex gender identities and realities. The essential function of the relative, dual nature of the masculine and feminine polarity appear to be diverging, and becoming more disconnected, estranged, and competitive.

The heart on the other-hand is by nature, non-dual. It does not prejudice, discriminate, separate, define or disconnect. The heart is the side of the coin whose function is to unite, to find similarity. It embraces and loves diversity. For the heart, the more difference, oddity, weirdness, the more opportunity it has to expand its love muscle. Absolute in its unconditionality, regardless of opposition, it tends energy toward wholeness and pure connection.

Uniting diversity of expression occurs through the heart. The differentiated opposites in the mind (Relative) are united through the unconditional, undifferentiated heart of oneness (Absolute). Bringing the Mind and Heart into synthesis celebrates diversity through connection.

** All those who have already been trained in Community Council through BEZA are welcome to attend.

Svenja Krauer

Svenja is an Alchemist of Change and a devoted mother of two wonderful children. She brings a wealth of powerful and beautiful practices into her work.

She is a certified Coach and Trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), a Certified Shamanic Practitioner, and the creator of the profoundly healing modality Tahira-na. Additionally, she is a Nia teacher, a cacao ceremony facilitator, and a guide for those navigating transformation.

Svenja’s heart swells with joy when she sees others stepping into their authentic power and healing. Her personal transformation over the past 14 years has inspired her to create a safe space for others to undergo similar journeys. She seamlessly integrates her project management expertise with a deep understanding of being truly present in the body, creating a harmonious dance of alchemy and change.

The Transformative Power of Talismanic Art

The Transformative Power of Talismanic Art

~ by Alison Evans

In May 2023 I went to a talk in Stanford, WC. A sign caught my eye – “Born as the Earth – a Zen Heart School”. I went over for a closer look and landed up in a conversation with Nangaku, its founder, who is a Zen monk and initiated shaman.

A 6 month course was starting in July. Little did I know, my life was about to change forever. We kicked off with the Visionary Fire Module.

I set an intention for the month. We were given instruction on how to practice Zazen Meditation. Then I was trained in the Protocols and the Agreements of Community Council. My first Council was amazing. I cried my way through it and felt so supported. The guidance was just lovely – like a warm hug. I learnt the importance of speaking from the “I”.

We received a whirlwind of information about our relationship to our ancestors, inspiration, passion and the transmutational power of Fire. I was tasked with building a home-altar. The ritualistic creativity was right up my street! I learned how to communicate with my ancestors by using the rhythm of a stick drumming on a stone to mimic my heartbeat.

We were encouraged to grieve with them – healing tears are gifts for the ancestors. It was as though someone had uncorked all that I had been suppressing for so many years. The tears came, and with them my healing began. Gathering up sticks of all I needed to transmute, I placed them on my altar. I burnt my sticks in a powerful healing ceremony. I released, and again cried and cried.

I received 2 monthly coaching sessions, and a divination – which was intriguing. I listened to my divination 6 times before I started integrating what had being communicated. We closed off our Fire Module which allowed my healing to marinate before starting the Compassionate Water Module.

Slightly more educated and better prepared, I packed up all my altar pieces and photos of my ancestors to create my Water shrine while travelling through Italy. I created temporary altars every second day. I set a new intention for the month.

Water and I resonated immediately – it all made so much sense. Water, the great balancer returns to equilibrium as fast as possible with its medicine of solving dilemmas, compassion, reflection and transparency.

I meditated my way across Italy, practising observing what my internal waters were doing. I experimented with my emotions and how they affected my water and felt very empowered to regain control over external influences.

I had 2 fantastic coaching sessions with Nangaku when I learnt that my angels always look out for me. I learnt too, that “those” demons are mine. They dedicated to keeping me safe – a big lesson for me. While people come into my world as angels they may leave as demons. Others may experience me as both an angel or a demon depending on how they respond to me. The lesson here for me was Oneness.

I loved my Water ceremony to whom I offered eggs, milk and honey, along with messages and symbolic gifts to release old blockages.

We closed off our Water Module and allowed the medicine of Fire and Water to deeply integrate.

The Grounded Earth Module began in September. I am collecting sacred items, as I have always done (though more consciously now), to create new altars for each month’s Elemental Training.

My altar is becoming my safe space. As I find my voice and become more empowered I am loving the Wednesday evening Community Council. My tears are drying up. I feel calmer, more grounded and centered. I learnt a valuable lesson on how to stay in balance by being in my centre. When off-balance, I can simply return to my centre and detach from my constant internal dialogue.

My intentions are more resolute and clear. Through meditation I am creating longer pauses between triggering stimuli and my habitual responses to them. My emotional waters are calming and my intuition is sharper!

We are about to end our Grounding Earth Module, and I am preparing to gift Mother Earth my homecoming collections.

“I have become aware that the art I had been instinctively creating using sticks, stones, feathers and bones, is my unique medicine gift to the world. I completed my first “conscious” Talismanic Art Piece. I based it on my journey with Born as the Earth School so far.”

The unlocked padlock and key represents the Gate of the Gatekeeper Apprentice Training.

This wisdom is made readily available and generously shared by Nangaku and his apprentice Raine.

The circle represents the medicine wheel as experienced in my divinations with Nangaku.

I bring the ancestors and a candle in as tribute to the Fire Dragon.

Seashells and yin-yang duality, purposely off-balance, represent the Water Dragon.

The centre piece, Mother Earth, is connected to the other 4 Modules.

Although I haven’t completed the Nature Module yet, I have chosen a feather and seed pods as representation.

The stones in the Stone Module are self-explanatory – they and the sand and seashell mix remind me of “As Above, So Below.”

The coins carry 2 messages. They represent coins from my divinations and the price paid for my impact on the environment.

The chain, symbolic of each one of us working together to carry the gift that is Earth School – its strength dependent on the weakest link. Each link the same, carrying the whole.

The “tree”, larger than life, grows out of the circle reaching out into new realms.

Nothing can be unheard or unseen. The wisdom I have already gained through this experience with Nangaku and Earth School has changed my very being. I know it will continue to do so – nothing will ever be the same again – thank God!

Artificial Intelligence vs Authentic Intelligence: A Zen Buddhist Perspective on Consciousness

Artificial Intelligence vs Authentic Intelligence: A Zen Buddhist Perspective on Consciousness

– Composed by Duane Steffens, and Edited Glenn Nangaku Leisching

Introduction

In the age of rapid technological advancement, the debate surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) versus authentic intelligence has gained considerable momentum.

While AI has transformed our world with its computational prowess, it is worthwhile to consider how Zen Buddhism views these concepts, especially concerning consciousness.

This article delves into the intriguing comparison between artificial and nature’s authentic intelligence from a Zen Buddhist perspective.

“Everything we are talking about, AI or computing power, will never be able to beat the complexity that nature presents to us. The real intelligence is Nature’s Intelligence. AI is good, but AI is just a tool to serve Nature’s Intelligence. Nature’s Intelligence is four and half billion years old. To think that something that is less than a hundred years old can beat something that is four billion years is a bit of an extension.” – Agam Khare

 

Understanding Artificial Intelligence

Defining AI

Artificial intelligence refers to the simulation of human intelligence in machines, allowing them to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence. These tasks encompass problem-solving, language comprehension, and even decision-making.

The Growth of AI

Over the years, AI has evolved significantly, thanks to machine learning, neural networks, and deep learning algorithms. These technologies enable AI systems to adapt and improve their performance based on data and experience.

AI’s Impact on Society

AI has found its way into various aspects of our lives, from virtual assistants on our smartphones to self-driving cars and recommendation algorithms on streaming platforms. It has streamlined processes and made our lives more convenient.

Nature’s Authentic Intelligence in Zen Buddhism

The Zen Approach to Consciousness

Zen Buddhism places a strong emphasis on mindfulness, meditation, and self-awareness. Through inner exploration in meditation (an ancient technology) practitioners de-condition themselves from the veil of mental programs to experience the pre-existing state of enlightenment – their authentic state of natural intelligence.

Consciousness and the Self

Zen views consciousness as a complex interplay of thoughts, emotions, and sensations. It questions the nature of the self and the concept of ego, seeking to transcend these barriers to attain a higher level of consciousness.

The Quest for Authentic Intelligence

In Zen, authentic intelligence is not about computational power or problem-solving abilities; it’s about the ability to perceive reality and respond with natural authenticity – without the filter of ego and desires. It involves being fully present in the moment and achieving a deep understanding of the self and the universe.

Bridging the Gap

Finding Harmony

While artificial intelligence and authentic intelligence may seem worlds apart, there is a way to find harmony between them. Zen teaches us to use all technologies mindfully, ensuring it enhances our lives without overshadowing our authentic experiences or causing harm.

The Role of Technology

From a Zen perspective, technology can be a tool to aid in our quest for authentic intelligence. Online meditation and self-awareness training, for instance, can guide us on our journey to awakening, making authentic intelligence more accessible in our fast-paced world.

It is important too, to remind ourselves that spiritual technologies and their instruments to support our human well-being have existed for thousands of years. Modern, digital technologies have at their root, these ancient, practical technologies which were created from the interconnection between humans and the intelligence of nature.

The Intelligence of Nature – Examples of Nature’s Authentic Intelligence

In contrast to current AI methods that focus on specific tasks and rely on large amounts of offline data and extensive, slow, and mostly supervised learning, natural intelligence is quick, versatile, agile, and open-ended.

 

Fungi – The Original Internet?

With an estimated 1.5m species of fungi, their fine fungal threads called mycelium act as an underground, natural ‘internet’, linking the roots of different plants. Up to 90 per cent of land plants are in a mutually-beneficial relationship with fungi. By linking into the network, plants share nutrients and information with neighbours and can sabotage unwelcome plants by spreading toxic chemicals.

 

Birds have (GPS) Global Positioning Systems!

For centuries, scientists dismissed birds as being less intelligent than mammals. Now they’re finding a new place in the pecking order. Tests have shown rooks and crows to be better than eight-year-old children at reaching treats by making and using wire hooks. Birds can remember where they hid thousands of pieces of food even after landscapes are covered in a metre of snow. Birds can find their way home after migrating thousands of miles. Arctic terns, for example, travel an average of 44,000 miles per year.

 

Plants – The Sensorial Superconductors

Humans have five basic senses. Scientists believe plants have at least 20. Plants release pheromones to warn of insect attacks and other plants respond. They also send distress signals, attracting predators of the insects that threaten to eat them. Plants are sensitive. Every root apex can detect 20 physical and chemical parameters, from light and gravity to humidity and pathogens. There are at least 600 species of animal-eating plants, including the venus flytrap. Plants can survive even after losing 90 per cent or more of their biomass.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

1. What is the essence of artificial intelligence?

Artificial intelligence aims to replicate human intelligence in machines to perform various tasks.

2. How does Zen Buddhism view consciousness?

Zen Buddhism sees consciousness as a complex interplay of thoughts and emotions, seeking to transcend the ego and attain higher awareness.

3. Can technology enhance our quest for authentic intelligence?

Yes, technology can aid in our journey toward authentic intelligence by providing tools and guidance for self-awareness.

4.Is it possible to balance technology and authentic experiences?

Absolutely, finding harmony between technology and authentic experiences is attainable through mindfulness and conscious use of technology.

Conclusion

In the clash of artificial versus natural, authentic intelligence, it’s vital to remember that they need not be mutually exclusive. Zen Buddhism teaches us that both can coexist harmoniously, with technology serving as a means to enhance our understanding of consciousness. Embracing this duality can lead to a more balanced and fulfilling life.

What’s important to remember is that intelligence, like language, is a tool used by nature and humans. Be wise! Maintain your sovereignty by not allowing yourself to be used, limited or manipulated by any tool.

In today’s tech-driven world, the relationship between artificial and authentic intelligence is more relevant than ever. By integrating the wisdom of Zen Buddhism into our lives, we can navigate this complex landscape with mindfulness and a deeper understanding of consciousness.