Zen Master Tozan's Second Rank

Zen Master Tozan came up with a spiritual practice map called the 5 ranks or 5 positions. The second rank is an aligning with our greatest truth, a place of purification or detox. We come face to face with ourselves. Different memories, body sensations, fear, doubt, sickness can arise and our job is to stay with it. We're sitting in front of a mirror and watching the distortions happen. As we undergo this process of aligning it creates the potential for something more to breakthrough.