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Matsuoka-Roshi was born in Japan into a family of Zen priests dating back six hundred years. In the 1930s he was sent to America by Sōtōshū, the Sōtō Zen Buddhist authority in Japan, to establish the Sōtō Zen tradition in the United States. He founded Sōtō Zen temples in both Los Angeles and San Francisco. He also furthered his ...
[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 ...
1987: Maitri Hospice begins caring for AIDS patients at the Hartford Street Zen Center (the first Buddhist hospice of its kind in the United States) 1987: Issho Fujita becomes abbot of Pioneer Valley Zendo in Charlemont, Massachusetts; 1988: Blanche Hartman receives Dharma transmission from Sojun Mel Weitsman
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.
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.
The term is especially used in the study of Zen Buddhism and Japanese martial arts, [1] and was popularized outside of Japan by Shunryū Suzuki's 1970 book Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. The practice of shoshin acts as a counter to the hubris and closed-mindedness often associated with thinking of oneself as an expert. [2]
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 ]
The Kwan Um School of Zen (관음선종회,觀音禪宗會) (KUSZ) is an international school of zen centers and groups founded in 1983 by Zen Master Seung Sahn.The school's international head temple is located at the Providence Zen Center in Cumberland, Rhode Island, which was founded in 1972 shortly after Seung Sahn first came to the United States.