Zen and Chan Buddhism foreground immediacy and relational insight as central to the actualisation of potential. Rather than relying on discursive reasoning or abstract categorisation, these traditions emphasise direct engagement with phenomena, often through meditation, koans, and paradoxical instruction. The self, perception, and world are understood as co-arising: potential is realised in the collapse of rigid conceptual boundaries and in the responsive attunement to present conditions.
Possibility is instantaneous and contingent. Each moment contains multiple potentialities, actualised not by imposition but through experiential alignment with relational currents. By suspending habitual distinctions between subject and object, practitioner and world, Zen and Chan reveal the dynamic co-constitution of experience, where construal itself is an emergent act.
The relational and non-dual orientation of Zen and Chan demonstrates that the field of possibility is inseparable from the practised awareness of interdependence. The collapse of conceptual divisions expands the horizon of potential, illustrating that the conditions for action, insight, and ethical responsiveness arise only within a lived, relational context.
Modulatory voices: Dōgen, Huineng.
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