05-17-2012, 12:00 AM
The sixth patriarch gives us this definition of Zazen.
The Za is not to
add any ideas of good or bad,
Zen being to not hold on to any concerns
whatsoever.
Zazen is very clearly defined and it is not just a sitting
posture, but it is a way of mind.
To not add on any thoughts of good or
bad to anything we perceive and within to not hold onto any concerns.
From morning until night, no matter what we are doing, to not add on any
further ideas to it.
This is Za in Zazen.
Moving with all the things in
relationship with our day, while knowing that they are all transient,
to have no thought or idea that you are standing and sitting.
No divided
idea, no discursive thinking about what you are doing.
- Shodo Harada Roshi
The Za is not to
add any ideas of good or bad,
Zen being to not hold on to any concerns
whatsoever.
Zazen is very clearly defined and it is not just a sitting
posture, but it is a way of mind.
To not add on any thoughts of good or
bad to anything we perceive and within to not hold onto any concerns.
From morning until night, no matter what we are doing, to not add on any
further ideas to it.
This is Za in Zazen.
Moving with all the things in
relationship with our day, while knowing that they are all transient,
to have no thought or idea that you are standing and sitting.
No divided
idea, no discursive thinking about what you are doing.
- Shodo Harada Roshi