The hands during zazen 2

Hello, thank you very much for your reply aboutmy inquiry about posture(hands).You've helped me a lot. I just have one more question that isbugging me, it might be silly but it really wont give me peace.One indian mystic, Osho, (supppousedly enligthenment) although i dont knowwhat path he used, said that enlightenment is possible only at night ...

Karmic return.

Two questions: Firstly, I have practised for eighteen years, I haven’t stopped saying to myself that I am not in reality. What about reality? Secondly, Master Deshimaru taught that we go back inevitably to the infernal cycle of transmigration if our practice is not mushotoku. Do we follow this karmic return until our death? Thanks, all the ...


Does Zen increase concentration powers?

Namaste,I have been curious about Zen for some timeabout 6 months and have been reading a lot about it. Ihave not started practicing yet.My question is since Zen meditation is stopping of thethought would it facilitate concentrated thinking whenwilled by the person practicing zazen ?in other words does it increase concentration powers ...



Mondo with Sabine and the two Muslims

Master, The Buddha, the god, is without ‘noumène’ thus he has an infinite number of aspects, faces, forms. However the essence of the aspect is beyond the aspect or beyond the not aspect, ‘beyond’ meaning containing immediately 2 aspects: aspect and non-aspect. Isn’it so that the buddha can be seen. So isn’t zazen beyond the aspect ...

Zazen

What do i bring to peoples life with my zazen daily practice? I'm i helping other beings when i sit down in zazen posture?
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Is Zazen a disguised christian practice?

I went to the Latin America Zen center on December 24th to practize Zazen. Upon arrival somebody told me that Zazen was suspended because they ( the monks ) were having a party or something, later in the night. Is that a satori? everything is impermanent including Zazen?Is Zazen a disguised christian practice?
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How does one deal with petty jealousies and insecurity ?

How does one deal with petty jealousies and insecurity ?I am a good man who does not wish to engage in this behaviour, however, it always seems to follow me and my family. I seek to hurt no none, yet my adversaries continually choose this path. When I was young I would lash out in anger, but now I am not the aggessor. Can you help ? ...


feeling of doubt

Hello ! I have a question wich is bothering me a long time regulary. It is about a feeling of doubt. Very deep in myself, i feel doubt about most of the things i do in life. Even if i get things i wished for a long time, once they appear it can not satisfy me and i feel it is just another "thing" which i got in my life, a nother present to the ...






The attachment to the Master.

I met in a sesshin people who followed a Western Master, panicked at the thought of being separated from him, losing it or being rejected. Eventualy, they've found a new family and a new attachment... which is reinforced with time; is it an insoluble contradiction!! It is annoying, isn't it?
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I find your site a fresh puff of air.

Dear Master Kosen, Sunday October 29, 2006, with a limited knowledge on Zen and a poor practice of the meditation; I have always admired the mysterious simplicity of this seated meditation which one names zazen, the most beautiful of the churches. I wished to practise in group, but being a French resident in Taiwan, the moralizer lessons of this...


Zen at war

i work in iraq, i'm hired for protection reasons etcI feel like an animal, i want kill, have sex, and i'm very lost.I don't know why i'm here on earth, i don't know what i must do, i don't knowwhat i am. im not afraid of dying or killing its part of life. i eventhought of killing you, is this right or wrong. i don't ever tell peopleof such ...

Could you teach me how to "defeat before fighting" ?

Dear Master Kosen,When I asked you the question about the aspect "do" of the Martial Arts, you answered me : "to defeat before attacking".I have thought about your answer, `to defeat before fighting' and I finished considering it as a koan. I asked myself : " to defeat whom, to defeat what ?" Nevertheless, I think I found an answer and I would ...


What is the root of disease ?

1)is the study of Zen only for the healthy?2)if i start to study Zen,will i immediately lose my selfishness?3)is the practice of Zen at first sometimes dry anduncomfortable?i am grateful for your deep rich works.4) my real question is : what is the root of disease?thank you, bruce rose.
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Suffering like beneficial.

is what you also, you force your spirit to consider the problems, and the suffering like beneficial, a source of joy, in order to appreciate life whatever the situation? thank you master
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