08-24-2010, 12:00 AM
For me?
In my study and practice of magick way back I found that I needed to have a sharper focus of my mind. I needed to do some meditation. That day my love return from the library with a book on Zen. I liked it found out the author lived 10 minutes from my place - visit him - was accepted into his zen group. Half a year later the sangha arranged for the zen master to come to Europa for the first time. I was on that first sesshin/retreat and the rest is history.
Its only the last 4 years that I have started to study zen text. Before that I thought that only zazen practice mattered.
In my study and practice of magick way back I found that I needed to have a sharper focus of my mind. I needed to do some meditation. That day my love return from the library with a book on Zen. I liked it found out the author lived 10 minutes from my place - visit him - was accepted into his zen group. Half a year later the sangha arranged for the zen master to come to Europa for the first time. I was on that first sesshin/retreat and the rest is history.
Its only the last 4 years that I have started to study zen text. Before that I thought that only zazen practice mattered.