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Nondiscriminatory wisdom
...practicing without prioritising the visible over the invisible, the explicit over the implicit, or vice versa.
This preparation involves the training of the whole person and is called “self-cultivation” (shugyō) in Japanese.
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The Adjustment of the Mind
Zen recommends that its practitioner follow a three-step procedure: adjusting one’s body, breathing and mind.
To adjust the mind means that the practitioner consciously moves to enter a state of meditation.
He learns to disengage him- or herself from the concerns of...
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No-mind
No-mind does not mean:
- a mindless state,
- that there is no mind
No mind means that there is no conscious activity of the mind that is associated with ego-consciousness.
No-mind is a free mind that is not delimited by ideas, desires, and images.
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Zen as Anti-Philosophy
If the term “philosophy” is taken to mean the establishment of “the kingdom of reason", Zen is an anti-philosophy.
Reason is incapable of knowing and understanding in toto what reality is.
Physical nature and human nature must be sought in an experiential dimension.
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Buddha-nature
The most distinguishing feature of this Japanese school of the Buddha-Way is its contention that wisdom, accompanied by compassion, is expressed in the everyday lifeworld when associating with one’s self, other people, and nature.
The Zen practitioner is required to embody...
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Dualism or non-dualism
Zen maintains a stance of “not one” and “not two,” that is “a position-less position.”
- “not two” means negating the dualistic stance that divides the whole into two parts.
- “not one” means negating the non-dualistic stance occurring when the Zen practitioner dwells in the whole ...
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Japanese Zen Buddhist Philosophy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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