Zazen is not meditation
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 mind does something else.
- Zazen focuses on a holistic body posture. Not a state of mind. Through correct sitting our mind learns to find its proper place & function within a unified mind-body field: “Just sit with correct posture’’
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