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Zen master John Daido Loori describes shikantaza as a challenging practice in spite of its name's simplicity. Mental strength ( joriki ) is not achieved through sustained concentration as in breath meditation , but through awareness of the flow of mind, without actively attempting to let go of a thought. [ 16 ]
Zoketsu Norman Fischer is an American poet, writer, and Soto Zen priest, teaching and practicing in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki. [1] He is a Dharma heir of Sojun Mel Weitsman, from whom he received Dharma transmission in 1988.
Sanzen (参禅), aka nisshitsu (入室), means going to a Zen master for instruction. In the Rinzai school, it has the same meaning as dokusan, which is specifically a private interview between student and master, [1] often centering on the student's grasp of an assigned koan.
1968: Samu Sunim founds the Zen Lotus Society in New York City (aka Buddhist Society for Compassionate Wisdom) 1968: New York Zendo Shobo-Ji of the Zen Studies Society of New York City is officially inaugurated by Soen Nakagawa on his 7th trip to the USA; 1969: Seikan Hasegawa, a Zen Buddhist priest from Japan, arrives in the United States [2]
He soon attracted American students and "beatniks", who formed a core of students who would go on to create the San Francisco Zen Center and its eventual network of Zen centers across the country, including the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, the first Buddhist monastery in the Western world.
Kodo Sawaki practicing zazen. Zazen is a meditative discipline that is typically the primary practice of the Zen Buddhist tradition. [1] [2]The generalized Japanese term for meditation is 瞑想 (meisō); however, zazen has been used informally to include all forms of seated Buddhist meditation.
[162] [167] Nevertheless, Mahayana Buddhist doctrine and East Asian Buddhist teachings remain an essential part of Zen Buddhism. Various Zen masters throughout the history of Zen, like Guifeng Zongmi, Jinul, and Yongming Yanshou, have instead promoted the "correspondence of the teachings and Zen", which argues for the unity of Zen and the ...
Moore established his own practice center in the 1990s, and eventually broke off from the Kwan Um School in 2004 to establish an independent organization, the Golden Wind Zen Order. Though not affiliated with the Kwan Um School, the GWZO follows many of its practice forms, with an emphasis on seated meditation practice, kong-an training, and ...