According to the Prajñā Pāramitā sutra

The new book of Master Kosen (in french) has just been published. This work comes from the oral teaching given in the Zen Temple Yujo Nyusanji, during zazen, throughout the year 2009.

What Master Kosen is eager to communicate is the immeasurable value of zazen, the practice of seated meditation, the essence of Buddha practice, which has been transmitted to him by his teacher Taisen Deshimaru.

Let yourself be carried by the guiding thread of the Buddha's word, by the first words of the Prajñā Pāramitā, the sutra of Great Wisdom. Let yourself be immersed in what is essential in meditation, beyond time, beyond yourself.

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chronique de la grande sagesse  d’après le Prajñā Pāramitā sutra - Un livre de Maitre Kosen

You can acquire Chronicle of Great Wisdom, according to the Prajñā Pāramitā sutra, at your convenience: directly from the Kosen Sangha book page or from Amazon, both in paperback and Kindle formats.

Excerpts

Mushotoku is doing actions without a goal, doing an action just for the action, without expecting anything in return. Mushotoku is a fundamental attitude of Zen.

When a beginner thinks of mushotoku, namely, of an action without goal, he understands it with his mind, with his intellectual brain, he plants it as a dogma: "You must not have a goal." But it has nothing to do with "You must not ...". From the moment we think: "You must, you must not", it cannot be mushotoku. This is very difficult to integrate, especially for a beginner.

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