What is delusion? Zen Master Dogen said "To carry youself forward and experience myriad things is delusion. That myriad things come forth and experience themselves is enlightenment." Do you experience yourself as experiencing things? Or is life just happening?

Our view of ourself as a separate self and our ideas often get in the way of seeing this, creating a contraction in the body-mind that is self-reinforcing. This is why not-knowing is such a big part of our practice. In zazen, if we're truly practicing, we can explore this edge. Can we let go of our contracted, deluded view and allow experience to experience itself? Can we wake up to reality?