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The essay primarily serves to introduce zazen 坐禅, [6] or seated meditation, to Japanese Buddhists, very few of whom would have been exposed to the practice. According to Gudo Nishijima, one of the many translators of the text into English, Dōgen often used bendō to mean the practice of zazen specifically, despite the fact that ben (辨) literally means pursuit and dō (道) means way or ...
How to Practice Zazen (1976), with Joe Langdon; Handbook of Authentic Buddhism, (1990s) To Meet the Real Dragon (1984), with Jeffrey Bailey; Master Dogen's Shinji Shobogenzo (2003) A Heart to Heart Chat on Buddhism with Old Master Gudo (2015), with Jundo Cohen; Master Dogen's Shobogenzo (2006), a complete translation published in four volumes ...
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.
The Zazen shin lays what Dōgen sees as the vital importance of Zazen (Japanese: 坐禅, lit. “Sitting meditation”) to his school of Buddhism. [3] Dōgen emphasises in Zazen shin that Zazen is not a way to become the Buddha, but rather a practice used by the enlightened to focus on the present. [4]
The sesshin schedule typically allows for four to five hours of sleep per night, though practitioners occasionally will spend much of the next-to-last night of a five- or seven-day sesshin in zazen. This is called yaza and is much revered as a particularly effective time to meditate when the thinking mind and ego lack the energy to derail practice.
Dōgen often stressed the critical importance of zazen, or sitting meditation as the central practice of Buddhism. He considered zazen to be identical to studying Zen. This is pointed out clearly in the first sentence of the 1243 instruction manual "Zazen-gi" (坐禪儀; "Principles of Zazen"): "Studying Zen ... is zazen". [24]
Stopping thought, or quieting the mind, is a term in Zen and other forms of meditation and yoga referring to the achievement of the mental state of samādhi, where the normal mental chatter slows and then stops for brief or longer periods.
The "Five Ranks" (Chinese: 五位; pinyin: Wuwei; Japanese: goi) is a poem consisting of five stanzas describing the stages of realization in the practice of Zen Buddhism. It expresses the interplay of absolute and relative truth and the fundamental non-dualism of Buddhist teaching.