Murmurings

Murmurings · 2023/04/22
This is one of the koans used in Zen practice. There was a Zen monk in the Tang Dynasty in China named Gutei. Whenever people asked him anything, he would simply hold up one finger. At the time of his passing away, he told his disciples, "I have been using the one-finger Zen practice that my master taught me all my life, but alas I could not finish using the technique. What does this mean? If this does not come to mind, try holding up one finger and putting your energy into it with your eyes...
Murmurings · 2023/03/26
In addition to regular Saturday Zazen sessions, Tesshu-kai holds a "Zazen and Dharma Talk" session once a month. In this month's "Zazen and Dharma Talk" I talked about why we do zazen in the first place. The gist of it is that zazen is done to enrich a person's energy and to live a life without regrets at that moment. So the main points of zazen are as follows. * Zazen must be done in such a way that the mind is full of energy. * The muscles must be fully activated at the same time as the...