A reader recently pointed me to an article by Ueda Shizuteru -- http://worldwisdom.com/public/viewpdf/default.aspx?article-title=%E2%80%9CNothingness%E2%80%9D%20in%20Meister%20Eckhart%20and%20Zen%20Buddhism.pdf Nothingness in Meister Eckhart and Zen Buddhism -- which offers valuable insight into the nature of Zen Mind. Community commentary welcome!

I have a question I would like ask on this topic:- The ego, is sometimes viewed as the delusion of “self” as an entity. While common “Chan” thought refers to this as a fundamental source of psychological suffering, I wonder if there really is a positive function of the ego? Western psychological thought would probably offer that there is. If this i