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July 2017 Zazenkai Talk ("Practice-Enlightenment" for Practical People)
July 2017 Zazenkai Talk ("Practice-Enlightenment" for Practical People)
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36 minutes
Released:
Jul 4, 2017
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Podcast episode
Description
Buddhist meditation has commonly been considered an instrumental technique aimed at obtaining a heightened mental or spiritual state, or even as a method for inducing some dramatic "enlightenment" experience. But in some branches of the Zen tradition, Zazen (Zen seated meditation) has been seen not as a means to attaining some result, but as a ritual enactment and expression of awakened awareness. This alternate, historically significant approach to Zen meditation and practice has been as a ceremonial, ritual expression whose transformative quality is not based on stages of attainment or meditative prowess.
Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum:June 31st-July 1st, 2017 - OUR MONTHLY 4-hour ZAZENKAI! »
Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum:June 31st-July 1st, 2017 - OUR MONTHLY 4-hour ZAZENKAI! »
Released:
Jul 4, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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