Zen short story: Hidden soul powers

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"The soul can contact its innermost strengths when it has a physical body attached to it for it to work through, which stretches it past its attachment to reasoned consciousness alone, and allows it to live more truly from love, with a love that even transcends consciousness." A quote from Zen master, Artrop Resposki. The old Zen master, Artrop Resposki, had once been a Bishop, in the Catholic church, but for the last twenty years of his life, he had been a Zen master. Unlike most other Zen masters, he believed in the soul, perhaps as a legacy from his past lifetime as a Bishop. For the Buddha, himself though, there was no "soul" in the sense of this spiritual part of us being a part of our bodies. Enlightenment then, to most Zen masters is about our not owning this soul, but more about our losing the attachment to something, that is so "intrinsically" us, that we own it, "falsely." For this Zen master, though, the reverse was true; enlightenment was the embracing of our true self, this spiritual part of us, and living wholely from that, rather than our still being directed by our mind. We become solely heart-driven, heart people, to be enlightened in this Zen master's view. In other words, we live as our soul, from our soul, through our body. We live as a spiritual being, through our soul, not as a human, trying to be spiritual, by trying to be our soul from our human. He had a saying: "Our soul is pure white love, and it should not be dyed into any other colour by our thoughts." He would also say: "Our soul lives from the love of God within it, and silence from our thoughts refreshes it, and allows it to play its own music within us." Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com The old Zen master here is being his soul in his Zen meditation. A soul-living person is an enlightened person, in this Zen master's view.