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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.
When sitting in zazen we unconditionally surrender our human ignorance. In effect we are saying “I will not use these human capacities for my confused, self-centered purposes. By adopting zazen posture, my hands, legs, lips and mind are all sealed. They are just as they are. I can create no karma with any of them.”
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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 (chosh...
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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 m...
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