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. Zazen is a ‘reset’ button on the human brain and our thinking, allowing a balance and clarity free of assembled opinions, memories, dreams, categorizations, judgments, likes and dislikes. The world is thereby perceived as free and simple. Dropping our sense of a separate ‘self’, we drop the many ways in which that ‘self’ resists…

. Nothing to think. No opinions. No names. No comparisons. We see in the past that those who transcended the ordinary and transcended the sacred and those who died while sitting or died while standing, relied totally on this power. Moreover, changing of the moment through the action of a finger, a [flag]pole, a needle,…

. Traditionally, Zen Teachers would give a shout of ‘KATSU’ … arising from somewhere, spreading everywhere … beyond thinking or discrimination … power to swallow the universe whole …. . … Such as in these stories of Master Rinzai (who was a little physical): A monk asked: “What is the essence of Buddhism?“ Master Rinzai…

.Yesterday trains, now planes … My family and I are heading back to Florida for a few weeks. We have to pack up things, say farewell to a few friends, after many years of splitting our time between there and Japan. Plane trips always are particularly good times for Zazen, in part due to an…
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