Zazen Notes

The issue for me is not whether the Lankavatara was a part of the Sixth Patriarch’s enlightenment experience; the issue is the nature of that experience. Here’s something I found under Milton Erickson on Wikipedia the other day, and I think it goes to the heart of the matter:

Erickson maintained that it was ...  read more

The aspect of practice I’m concerned with now is Cheng Man-ching’s assertion that relaxation takes place along the spine from the tailbone to the crown of the head. If I look for three directions right where I am in space, and free right where I am in space to shift and move, sometimes right where I am stays in the lower abdomen and stretches ...  read more

Kobun Chino Otogawa had this to say about shikantaza:

Shikan taza sounds very strong. Shikan is understood as identical to taza. Shikan means “pure”, “one”, “only for it”. Ta is a very strong word. It shows moving activity. When you hit, that movement is called ta, so “strike” ...  read more