| The formation known as Buddha's Palm is especially conducive to meditative practices such as vipassana, shamatha, and zazen. |
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| If you sit in zazen, divorced from the rest of Buddhist practice, I'm afraid it's not Zen Buddhism. |
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| The kusen during zazen, the teaching during zazen does not aim only at saying something. |
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| I remember doing zazen in Paris, it was the end of '67, behind the macrobiotic store. |
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| It is possible to practice sesshins from time to time and continue zazen at home for an everyday practice, if there is no dojo in your town. |
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| So during zazen we sit up very straight when the kyosaku is behind us, and we do not become a limp dishrag when he has gone by. |
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| And I believe in zazen for the human being as the most absolute and rapid and direct method. |
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| In the time also of the practice, the major part of the people stops their practice of zazen at the moment when they should start. |
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| At that moment, as soon as the zazen starts, the thought should prevail on the body. |
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| So most of the people who have never practiced zazen have in many cases the part of the solar plexus totally blocked. |
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| When we practice zazen, we do not do bad things, we do not lie, we do not steal and we do not get angry. |
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| The more we deepen our zazen, the more we can go inside even of something which looks to us limited, up to the unlimited. |
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| Rightly, I was underlining lately that after zazen, when you stand up to do kin-hin, you have the legs benumbed. |
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| We can very well be conscious without thinking, it is even fundamental, it is the basis of the consciousness during zazen. |
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| He lived in the back room of a health food store, practicing zazen and surviving by giving massages. |
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| Sometimes I receive telephone calls when I have been practicing zazen for two hours in the morning or evening. |
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| When we say that zazen is the practice-realization of the awakening, this awakening remains conditioned to the seated position? |
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| In every day life, linked to the practice of zazen, we should also be able to come back to the shelter of the three treasures. |
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| Then you study it by practicing zazen and by wearing the kesa and the rakusu during zazen and in daily life. |
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| And then by dint of repetition of this attitude of zazen, we are going to discover that this body himself, material, is in fact spiritual. |
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| To continue practising zazen, is it not to persist in searching for the truth, for the one who reachs the satori? |
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| In her meditations during zazen she counted her breaths from one to ten. |
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| Every day I do zazen and it is the most important part of my day. |
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| One of the things Zen means is the effort of practicing meditation, zazen. |
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| You can see zazen prior to the germination of your intellectual sense. |
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| Then he adopted the zazen, or sitting meditation position, on one of the girders. |
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| During zazen he napped or turned in his warm, tidepool world. |
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| When I teach zazen, I teach according to Suzuki Roshi's lineage. |
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| At this moment, the freedom of zazen will be found in everything, everywhere, all the time, always, moving, motionlessness, in each moment. |
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| In general the particularity of zazen is to stop the functioning of the five senses, the sight, the smell, the hearing, the taste, the touch. |
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| When we practice zazen, we are really like a diapason, like a needle of acupuncture. |
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| The idea during the zazen is to switch off the tool thinking, a bit like a computer. |
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| Can zazen help me to go beyond in my work of clinical presentations concerning the autistic and psychotic persons? |
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| Afterwards, wham, the day begins, the day that will take me into many other things, right up to the next zazen. |
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| If it is only to become an old schmuck with a big belly that we practice zazen, it is not worth it. |
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| I also remember doing zazen facing a very fine Norman sideboard, but I can't remember where it was. |
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| When we continue zazen, one good day we discover that God does not exist anywhere else outside ourselves, that our own nature is God. |
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| I wish to give it to everybody, but zazen is just so wonderful that we would like every thing to be zazen. |
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| And then I believe in zazen, I do not believe in buddhism or Buddha as a historical or mythical personage. |
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| So: creative thought yes, conditioned thought no. That is the state of mind of the zazen. |
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| So during zazen, concentrate your attention on the navel, tune your breathing, or tune your navel with your breathing. |
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| The body is very important during zazen, not to become attached to it, but to love it, to save it, to glorify it, to purify it. |
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| The people want to use zazen for their own ego, instead of abandonning it fro the authentic practice. |
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| And now I understand that the real zazen of Buddha is not a special condition and that we can be meditating a each instant of our life. |
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| So in zazen you learn how to zero these three hundreds percents of unuseful tensions which block you to go to this goal. |
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| The most outstanding advocate of zazen was the 13th-century Zen master and founder of the Sōtō sect in Japan, Dōgen. |
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| He considered zazen not only to be a method of moving toward enlightenment but also, if properly experienced, to constitute enlightenment itself. |
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| He was always practicing with zeal, always the first one in the dojo, sitting in zazen before anyone else. |
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| And my teaching, people continue to listen to it because of zazen. |
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| Since the main aim of zazen is to rid one of blind egotism, Buddhists sometimes criticize and condemn ordinary common sense, which they confuse with ego-centeredness. |
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| And it is from the 'more than this body', it is from there that we should open our eyes in zazen and not be sleepy inside our own cocoon whith daydreams, that has nothing to do, that, with the zen. |
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| In zazen, the top fireplace, namely the mental, is quiet down. It means that we do not base our meditation on the thinking, quite at the contrary, the thinking calms itself up. |
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| For this reason, during zazen, you should keep open eyes, completely naturally, laid down at 45 degrees in front of you, the sight, and you not only concentrate objectively on the posture, on zazen. |
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| Otherwise zazen will become skimpy, egoistical. |
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| The theme of the breathing in zazen is of the outmost importance. |
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| So in a concrete way, in the zazen posture which is our material body, we should realize, our body itself should realize that it is light, that it is energy, that it is spiritual, without limit. |
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| I did not follow a sect, I did not idolise a man, I always had faith in zazen, I always wanted to awake myself through zazen, I always wanted the truth being revealed to me in the zazen. |
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| He had secured an invitation from a macrobiotic group, and lived in the back room of a health-food store, practicing zazen every day and surviving by giving massages. |
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| The solar plexus in general keeps a quantity of energy, so it transmits itself directly in energy which will accumulate in the belly, which will give you a great stability for the zazen and for the life. |
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| For now, there are no really earth-shattering plans for the future, other than to return to Myanmar and continue with the schools, the wells and zazen. |
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| Period of more intense practice with four zazen a day. |
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| It brings also the problem of the immobility because zazen should be motionless, the body should stay motionless, the posture should stay motionless. |
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| Three years passed, and on the night of December 23, 1301, the moon shone menacingly and coldly. Master Keizan saw the figure of Gasan in deep zazen through the moonlight and read his mind. |
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| My master taught the zazen posture with a method let's say extremely virile, a bit martial, myself I have more the tendency to advise the people to relax the useless tensions at least in the beginning. |
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| Only at the time of zazen this state is natural, in everyday life it can come all alone sometimes, but most of the time I force myself to be in this same state of mind, but it is not yet natural and spontaneous. |
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| The zazen posture is a posture that you try to take for the first time. |
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| Because in zazen we should maintain ourself in a vertical balance. |
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| Hello, here my question: during zazen, is not carnally necessary to be inhabited by the shade of desire so that in full light, we can try out its inconsistency. |
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| The instructions for zazen direct the disciple to sit in a quiet room, breathing rhythmically and easily, with legs fully or half crossed, spine and head erect, hands folded one palm above the other, and eyes open. |
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| In addition, each participant is free in his or her practice, in terms of both how frequently they sit zazen and who they choose as a spiritual guide. |
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| So effectively when zazen is finished, we cannot say a lot. |
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| The people who really want to do zazen can do it. |
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| I talked to you a little while ago of being able to move in zazen. |
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| The part of observation during zazen starts from the belly. |
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| The mind, it exists in every thing, we do not need zazen to find it. |
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| But what can we say on the true breathing of zazen? |
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| Incidentally, when you start zazen, it is pretty difficult. |
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| So the majority of people who do zazen do not know what zazen is, they do not know what they are living, realizing, manifesting, in other words, they do not have the satori. |
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| The retail component will soon be occupied by Korean lifestyle and fashion brand Zazen Bear. |
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| They had sent out scouts to try and locate the original cave where the practice of Zazen was first initiated. |
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| Zazen, seated meditation, is the basic practice in zen. |
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| Zazen and mindfulness both derive from Zen-Buddhist meditation. |
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