Posts tagged zazen
When you are abiding in the Unborn, all the time is zazen.
Zazen meditation
Introduction to Zen Meditation: The Still Point
坐禅 - ZAZEN
Maruyama Okyo, 1787, Skeleton Performing Zazen on Waves
Zazen
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On practice and wonder ~ Charlotte Joko Beck
“How do we know if our practice is a real practice? Only by one thing: more and more, we just see the wonder. What is the wonder? I don’t know. We can’t know such things through thinking. But we always know it when it’s there.”
Charlotte Joko Beck; “Nothing Special”, p. 241
Ango Gatha 1
Preparing my sitting space for the start of Ango zazenkai
I vow with all beings
to both accept the dust
and clear it without regret
Zazen practice is the practice which includes the various activities of life. So actually we do not emphasise the sitting posture alone. How to sit is how to act. We study how to act by sitting, and this is the most basic activity for us…..Buddha taught us how to act through our practice; that is why we siten
Shunryu Suzuki (“Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind” p.125-6)
(reading this today was a reminder of why I meditate. Thank you to Shunryu Suzuki)
When you are sitting in the middle of your own problem, which is more real to you: your problem or you yourself? The awareness that you are here, right now, is the ultimate fact. This is the point you will realize by zazen practice. In continuous practice, under a succession of agreeable and disagreeable situations, you will realize the marrow of Zen and acquire its true strength.
Mokugyo.
The zazen I speak of is not a meditation technique. It is simply the dharma gate of joyful ease, the practice-realization of complete enlightenment. It is the koan realized; traps and snares can never reach it.
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