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The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza by

The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza ebook
Page: 256
ISBN: 9780861719495
Publisher: Wisdom Publications MA
Format: pdf

Jan 5, 2012 - The Art of Just Sitting: Essential writings on the zen practice of shikantaza. PS: Barry has graciously offered his new book The Path of Zen to everyone. Aug 20, 2012 - I have refrained from writing a review of this book for nearly a year and a half, being content to simply practice what Tolle has expressed so simply – remain in the present moment for that is all we have. It could be said I was, in a sense, forced to distinguish shikantaza (just sitting) from those types of sitting meditations. Did working within the two or evidence to the contrary. Please click here to obtain a copy. May 30, 2012 - According to Dogen, the sitting zazen facing the wall that Bodhidharma practiced in silence is totally different from what had been practiced as zazen to train (shu) a meditative state of dhyana (zen). Last week the question came up of how we can take this practice of awareness, or paying attention that we are developing while we're doing sitting meditation, into our lives after the bell rings. The Zen Practice of Shikantaza. Tolle's book this time is written in a kind of Zen like prose. Much of Zen practice, including many teaching techniques used by Zen masters, is aimed at bringing the Zen practitioner to this same place of unknowing, of letting go of what he or she knows. Usually the Dogen Zenji was always writing from two perspectives. It's simply beautiful… and very real! A true Great sages like Ramana Maharshi, when asked questions would often not even reply and just sit in silence in front of you, making you go deeper within yourself beyond mental modifications. As an undergraduate at UC Davis, I majored in agronomy, the art and science of field crop management. That is why Dogen repeatedly emphasized this point (zazen is not shuzen) in his writings (Fukanzazengi, Shobogenzo, Eihei Koroku, etc..). Oct 28, 2013 - While I tried to follow the Vipassana instructions as best I could, at the same time I saw how helpful they were for me to be more thorough in the Zen practice of shikantaza—just sitting.