April 2012
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Zen meditation teaches us to just sit without doing anything, leaving all thoughts, feelings, emotions at rest.
‘You should sit in stillness like a mountain’, said Dogen Zenji to his disciples. Just sitting with no thoughts lurking around means that we are encouraged to go beyond thinking, in the realm of no-thinking.
In the boundless realm of no-thinking all our mental constructs...
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“Practicing Zen is dropping through the mind-body dualism. Just sitting is...”
– Siddharta Gautama
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Applying reason to meditation can lead us astray. Knowledge is based on intuition, in which you grasp a truth like a flash of light. The more you apply your logic reasoning, the more you get confused.
Meditation lets you go to the core of things, to the real sense of life. The task is hard work, it takes a life to realize (not through your reason) that the only thing you know for certain is that...
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“To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget to self....”
– Dogen Zenji
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A growing number of people around the world become curious and begin the practice of meditation. In the past, meditation was confined within monastery walls and taught to monks. Nowadays, not only meditation can be practiced by everyone, but there is no difference among the sexes. Both men and women enjoy the same opportunities, irrespective of age, social or financial situations and, last but not...
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“Shikantaza is the Great Gate of Peace and Joy”
– Dogen Zenji
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In our busy-body world, we are accustomed to set one of more goals in life and try our best to realize it. We are even judged by our ability to succeed and our relationships are based upon this frame of mind.
Meditation teaches us that there is another way of living, where no accomplishments have to be fulfilled, no things to be done, nothing of the kind. We learn just to be, to let things come...
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In meditation it is important to let go of whatever arises in your mind, any thought or feeling, emotion or worry you might have experienced in the past. You come to realise that you are not the thoughts, emotions, feelings or whatever arising; meditation enables you to realise this truth of your being and to feel less worried about things. Meditation is a great blessing, a way of living bringing...
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When we sit to meditate, our stillness gets into the dimension of being, where no goal has to be achieved, no intention has to be fulfilled; we have absolutely nothing to do. Whenever a thought, an emotion, a feeling arises in our mind, we just contemplate it and let it go without any sort of intervention and with no sense of guilt. The state of being we are in is fuelled by our awareness of the...
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Silence is our door to the infinite. When we sit to meditate, we allow our being to get in touch to the infinite. Our minds are part of it; they are vast, boundless. We only need to let them be in this immensity.
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“Eternity is not a space. It is not a timeline towards the infinite. Eternity is...”
– Dogen Zenji
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“Zazen is to tune into the Universe”
– Kodo Sawaki Roshi 