I would say that it is thinking, acting and living with a particular understanding that the whole world is present moment.Is Zen thinking,acting,and living in the present moment on a daily basis?..
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I would say that it is thinking, acting and living with a particular understanding that the whole world is present moment.Is Zen thinking,acting,and living in the present moment on a daily basis?..
I would say that it is thinking, acting and living with a particular understanding that the whole world is present moment.
Is Zen thinking,acting,and living in the present moment on a daily basis?..
Yes. The "interval" belongs to the past, because only once it has happened do we split it off from the world, give it a name (identity) and a place relative to other things.yea, something like that.
Is it one fluid motion with no intervals? that has to do with martial arts.
So everybody has "zen" but people who really study and practice it benefit more?..
Zen is only practice. There is nothing to understand. The need for intellectual study arises when it is connected to Buddhism or another philosophy.
The . . . Gautama Buddha of India isn't the "buddha" of the Japanese Soto Zen tradition. (or is it?)![]()
I would presume that "Zen" is just (all human actions in the present time of consistent fluid motions of the human anatomy.)
Is Zen thinking,acting,and living in the present moment on a daily basis?..
Yes, when one simply sits; its zen. Sitting without 'thoughts'!. does "sitting" in my office chair count for meditation practice?..
The word 'thinking' in any form moves one away from ZEN.What about "thinking on the ball" is that conducive to zazen?..
Friend American Zen,
Yes, when one simply sits; its zen. Sitting without 'thoughts'!
The word 'thinking' in any form moves one away from ZEN.
Only when one is HERE-NOW!totally in the PRESENT.
Guess, if one simply learns to SIT, its enough; [no thoughts allowed, please!]
Love & rgds
Friend American Zen,
Yes, when one simply sits; its zen. Sitting without 'thoughts'!
The word 'thinking' in any form moves one away from ZEN.
Only when one is HERE-NOW!totally in the PRESENT.
Guess, if one simply learns to SIT, its enough; [no thoughts allowed, please!]
Love & rgds
Agreed!when one recognises and 'inhabits' that indefinable mindspace in which thoughts arise and disappear, then the arising of thought is no more an obstruction to meditation than clouds are an obstruction to the sky.