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Today we practice Kinhin, walking meditation, step by step going nowhere … … each moment, where we are .. … right ’round to the place we began. (Please excuse the dropped microphone noise about 2 minutes in)Press on arrow for ‘play’

For a few minutes before we sit, we will silently observe an ordinary object … just a stone from the walkway. But we’ll not even label it as “stone” … Press on arrow for ‘play’ .

Here is the ‘Secret of Secrets’, the Key to the Myriad Doors of Zazen: … that little rocking back and forth at the start. (What? You thought it was something else??) Do that rock ‘just so’, and All Buddhas of All Ages ‘rock & roll’ with you. Do that ‘Sway’ in accord with ‘the Way’,…

Today we look at the eyes. They are open during Zazen, either by 1/3rd or 2/3rds. Yet, we stare without focus at the wall or ground. Our eyes are not closed, and are open to all things. However, we do not label or distinguish ‘this’ from ‘that’ … In such way, all the world is…
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