Posted on Nov 9, 2015 by Charlie Ambler http://www.thedailyzen.org/2015/11/09/on-zazen-by-uchiyama-kasho-roshi/?fbclid=IwAR1TAP5cJR3eH0jyFoXbL-JgKcEfxIcMq5AxjmRJisOdBsM71MbBWrX5Lsw ohttp://www.thedailyzen.org/2015/11/09/on-zazen-by-uchiyama-kasho-roshi/?fbclid=IwAR1TAP5cJR3eH0jyFoXbL-JgKcEfxIcMq5AxjmRJisOdBsM71MbBWrX5Lsw On Zazen by Uchiyama Kosho Roshi On Zazen by Uchiyama Kasho Roshi In short, doing zazen is to stop doing anything, to face the wall, and to sit, just being yourself that is only the Self. While doing zazen we should refrain from doing anything,… Continue reading On Zazen – Uchiyama Kosho Roshi
Category: Soto Zen Buddhism
Notes on the Four Fruitions – Jundo Cohen Roshi
Master Dogen and the Soto sense of the Four Fruitions (Stream Entry, Once Returner, Non Returner, Arhat) is not like this. The endless end of Practice-Enlightenment is already realized in the beginningless beginning and the middleless middle, and is brought to life in our Practice-Enlightenment in each instant along the way. The Raft is not… Continue reading Notes on the Four Fruitions – Jundo Cohen Roshi
Shikantaza – clarification – Jundo Cohen
Jundo Cohen Roshi - on clarifying Shikantaza I am not qualified to comment on Theravadan meditation, and I am not the last word on Shikantaza. I simply say in Shikantaza to let thoughts and emotions go without grabbing on or wallowing. Although not grabbing or wallowing, let thoughts or emotions be without resistance, much as… Continue reading Shikantaza – clarification – Jundo Cohen
Rinso-in Temple in Japan – Shunryu Suzuki
http://blogs.sfzc.org/blog/2018/08/14/featured-photo-august-16/ Rinso-in, the temple in Japan where Shunryu Suzuki Roshi was the resident priest. It is now overseen by his son Hoitsu and grandson Shungo. Photo from 1996 by Bill Schwob.
True Mind is Watching Mind
from "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" by Zen Master Shunryu Suzuki (1904-1971) Your true mind is always with whatever you see. Although you do not know your own mind, it is there--at the very moment you see something, it is there--at the very moment you see something, it is there. This is very interesting. Your mind… Continue reading True Mind is Watching Mind
Shikantaza – Thoughts on Silent Illumination – Jundo Cohen
Jundo Cohen First, it is important to keep in mind that many very different approaches are being called "silent illumination" these days (maybe in the past too). Some, for example, seem to emphasize various degrees of concentration on the breath, and the attainment of varying degrees of "samadhi" with deeply concentrated mind states. Second, reading… Continue reading Shikantaza – Thoughts on Silent Illumination – Jundo Cohen
Shikantaza – Open Awareness – Jundo Cohen
Jundo Cohen If this is helpful, we have written instructions here, and videos at our Sangha explaining more in detail. PDF (https://sites.google.com/.../TreeleafBasicZazenInstructio...) In a nutshell, one may sit in a stable and balanced way, following the breath or in "open awareness," one one does not judge or get caught in trains of thought. But most… Continue reading Shikantaza – Open Awareness – Jundo Cohen
Shikantaza is…..
It is the silent immovable center of the hurricane, where we see all but are not touched by all. Once we get back to daily life we take this out to the world...being the center of our vortex. - Frank Tatulinski
Shikantaza – The Still Center – Jundo Cohen
Shikantaza Zazen is not meditation, is not development, and thus creates no Karma. Zazen is the polishing of the Jewel that Shines brilliantly whether seen or unseen, and thus can't be polished. This Zazen "develops" what can be developed only when we drop all need for development and change, sitting in the Wholeness of that… Continue reading Shikantaza – The Still Center – Jundo Cohen
Dogen Zenji – the vanity of trying to be “here now” – it already is!
Going into the ocean to count the grains of sand is a vain waste of energy; polishing a tile to make a mirror is useless effort. Do you not see--the clouds on the highest mountain gather and disperse of themselves; what "far" or "near" is there? The flowing water at the bottom of the canyon… Continue reading Dogen Zenji – the vanity of trying to be “here now” – it already is!
Reality is Dharma 