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Zazen Steps
Zazen is just sitting with the correct posture. However, there is a sequence to a zazen session:
- regulating the body (choshin)
- regulating the breath (chosoku)
- regulating the mind (choshin).
Dogen, the father of zazen, wrote “In our zazen, it is of primary importance to sit in the correct posture. Next, regulate the breath and calm down.”
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Zazen is translated as Zen meditation. But the 2 practices are not quite the same:
- Meditation focuses on the head. It's a mind exercise, structured dualistically, with a sitting body as a container & a meditating mind as the contents: the body sits while the m...
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Zazen is going out of the business of being a human
People think of zazen as a solution to personal sufferings or the cultivation of an individual. It is not. Zazen is the posture in which a human being does nothing for the sake of a human being, the human being is freed from being a human being and becomes a Buddha.
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Practicing Zazen
- In a silent place, quietly sit down, stop moving, and let go of your thoughts.
- Focus just on your Zazen posture and your breathing.
- Keep your back straight.
- Let your ego and your unconscious mind melt away, merge with the universe.
Meditation: Early steps
A simple meditation practice should be like this:
- Sit comfortably. Your back should neither be so straight, nor it should lounge. Just get a nutral position.
- Calm down your legs first. Remove any tension within them.
- Calm down y...
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- The Yoga posture or pose is called Asana in Sanskrit.
- Yoga has thousands of body postures that are practised according to one’s proficiency and body type.
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