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The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza



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It is essential that you follow exactly what you are told to do. In Goenka school of Vipassana, you are given very specific guidance to follow. Jul 30, 2010 - Approach, zazen specifically shikantaza, meditation with focus on insight. Sep 13, 2010 - I am not going to compare the two as to which one is better than the other because the essence of both practice is the same: Seeing things as they really are. When we sit, we sit (shikantaza). I always sit in silence at the end of the day, and just slowly recall all the moments of great full ness - it helps that I pause before I eat for instance, or do my Yoga, so that my awareness is more fully present - that means, at the . Emphasis, zazen To me, and this is just one opinion, “hardcore” should be about real mastery, real practice, real results, real empowerment to do all this stuff. Sep 13, 2012 - I wanted to read to you a little from this book, which is called The Art of Just Sitting by John Daido Loori. May 1, 2014 - Even in Korean Buddhism, where Son (Zen) meditation has pride of place, monastic vocations are rigidly divided between practice monks (ip'ansung) and administrative monks (sap'ansung). Jan 1, 2009 - thezensite's extensive reading list/bibliography for Zen Buddhist students and scholars. Sep 12, 2011 - Publications include: chapters for Water: Its Spiritual Significance (Vons Fitae Press), The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza, and Lotus Moon: The Poetry of Rengetsu. The ip'ansung The sap'ansung are presumed to be too busy with their monastic duties to engage in formal meditation practice and are not even permitted to enter the meditation-hall compound, let alone sit with the full-time meditators. Mar 18, 2009 - I take as my personal creed… this powerful message from a dear person who has shared her life with us in her masterful writing: .. Feb 5, 2013 - The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza. Oct 13, 2013 - Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza. ZEN Training: Methods and Philosophy (Shambhala Classics). This includes writing, reading, and body gestures. I am practicing the art of 'thanking me' and increasing the times I thank those around me and thanking God. In it, he talks about the essential writings on the Zen practice of Shikantaza. How that (Shobogenzo, Zazenshin, Gudo Nishijima & Mike Cross) [quoted in Zen – Enlightened Wisdom, Delusion, and Confusion By Ted Biringer, on May 4th, 2010-read Ted's commentary on that line for some serious hardcore Zen.].

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