Joe, Edgar and Everyone, I sit (zazen) almost every day. I actually intend to sit every day but some days that schedule is interrupted. When I sit it is usually in the morning shortly after I wake and take a shower but BEFORE breakfast or any stimulants like a cup of tea. When I sit I sit for 20 minutes and then get up and walk around about 5 minutes to stretch my legs. I like to repeat this two more times for a total of 3 sessions of sitting. Sometimes I substitute bowing or chanting for sitting or for one of the sessions. Sometimes I only sit 1 or 2 sessions, and sometimes like I said not at all.
What are your practices vis-a-vis zazen or some other form of meditation? ...Bill! --- In [email protected], "Joe" <desert_woodworker@...> wrote: > > Edgar, > > When I sit, I sit in the world of forms. Granted, I stay with my method of > meditation. Except when I don't. And then I come back to it. This is > Practice, and keeping and putting-in-a-foundation. It's not to be neglected, > and neither has it ever been deprecated by the Old Masters, nor even our > quite young, recent, master teachers. > > To my mind, Zazen is the indispensable 1/13th part of Zen practice. > > We all know too how little Bill! needs to sit, because he revealed it here. > Howdy!, and kudos, Bill!(!). > > So, Edgar: Start a point, please, because ...so far you have none. > > --Joe > > PS If you were ever really one of their students, you'd have done more than > *hear* about sitting from those traditional Zen masters you don't name. And > you would definitely have heard about it, and not "almost never". Neither > Dogen nor Hongzi mentioned it? Well, it's in their writings: As > contemporaries, they were both 13th Century C.E. figures; their vocalizations > have faded. > > > Edgar Owen <edgarowen@> wrote: > > > > Joe and Bill, > > > > It is true that sitting is almost never mentioned in the words of the > > traditional Zen masters. Enlightenment Zen experience is almost always the > > result of actions IN THE WORLD OF FORMS and consists of seeing the true > > nature of the world of forms. > > > > You two are totally outside of and go against Zen tradition by the > > exclusive emphasis you put on sitting.... > ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
