As much as I am in awe of the Buddha himself, and as much as Zen is a powerful philosophy and way of life, there is this issue, that remains unaddressed if you don’t have some psychology at your disposal.
What is this one thing
Well, it is called the satiation pushback crux.
We all know that prince Siddharta was the former name of the Buddha, before he became the Buddha. Before he sat down and renounced all his wealth.
Now, consider. If it wasn’t Siddharta, but a son of a very poor and sick old farmer, and he was having a tooth ache on top of his poverty.
Say he, too, sat down and like Siddharta, thought: Screw it, Im gonna renounce all my worldly conditions.
What would have happened.
Would a supreme bliss have come over him, too?
I find that highly doubtful.
What Siddharta relinquished and renounced was his to renounce.
He was sexually satisfied so he had comparatively few ego issues. He has known what is means to eat more than you can desire so he had little neurosis about food. He had known great wealthy families so he knew very well the happiness that wealth does bring as well as the type it doesn’t bring.
She he was, by his wealthy past, already set free from desires.