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The Culture of Simplicity from the book Leonard Koren - Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets and Philosophers |
Everyone is originally pure, not in the slightest way different from the Buddha. Zazen is the purity of one’s own nature through the body. So the self of zazen is different from the self of ordinary life...... |
What do people search for in life? People are looking for liberation from their fears, worries, and anxieties; that is, for freedom from the bonds of birth, old age, sickness, and death. Even in our times—where mankind has developed this amazing modern civilization with scientific wonders—people still continue to lead their lives trying to figure out solutions to these fundamental matters............... |
Zazen is a very popular Zen Buddhist practice. “Za” means “ Sitting” and “ Zen” is a Japanese word meaning “Meditation” or “Meditative State”, so Zazen means “Sitting Meditation”............ |
"Zen" is the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese character "chan," which is in turn the Chinese translation from the Indian Sanskrit term "dhyana," which means meditation........................" |
"Zen vznikl před patnácti sty lety v Číně jako potomek taoismu a budhismu......................." D. T. Suzuki - Malý úvod do zen (ZEN 1, Antológia, CAD Press, 1986) |