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dharma for the zen student
The purpose of this little book is to assure that all studentsunderstand the mechanics of Zen practice and the basic teachings ofBuddhism. The descriptions of practices have been generalized, andparticular schools have adopted variations. If you are lucky enough inthis life to find a true Zen teacher with an active school and joinit, then please follow exactly what your teacher says, and mark up orthrow away this book to accord with the usage of your own school.Also, there is purposefully very little material here which isspecific to Zen as a school of Buddhism; so there should be no problemwith using the same material in any Buddhist meditation school.Accordingly, some topics specific to Zen but varying from school toschool, such as koans, teaching interviews, ceremonies, and titles ofteachers are left to the individual schools to explain.
“ All bodies are composed of the four elements of earth, water, wind and fire. When they come together and form a body we say it’s a male, a female, give it names, and so on, so that we can identify each other more easily. But actually there isn’t anyone there - only earth, water, wind and fire. Don’t get excited over it or infatuated by it. If you really look into it, you will not find anyone there. ”
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zen koans
These koans, or parables, were translated into English from a book called the Shaseki-shu (Collection of Stone and Sand), written late in the thirteenth century by the Japanese Zen teacher Muju (the "non-dweller"), and from anecdotes of Zen monks taken from various books published in Japan around the turn of the 20th century.japanese zen buddhist philosophy
First published Wed Jun 28, 2006; substantive revision Fri Oct 8, 2010 Zen aims at a perfection of personhood. To this end, sitting meditation called “ za-zen ” is employed as a foundational method of prāxis across the different schools of this Buddha-Way, through which the Zen practitioner attempts to embody non-discriminatory wisdom vis-à-vis the meditational experience known as “ satori ” (enlightenment).