If you want to understand the truth, you must let go of your situation, your condition, and all your opinions. Then your mind will be before thinking. “Before thinking” is clear mind. Clear mind has no inside and no outside. It is just like this. “Just like this” is the truth. An eminent teacher said, If you want to pass through this gate, do not give rise to thinking. This means that if you are thinking, you can't understand Zen. If you keep the mind that is before thinking, this is Zen mind.
