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About Zen
Zen is simply the direct
Way of Awakening. It is just allowing ourselves to enter into the heart of this moment,
which is the heart of our lives. It is simply paying attention to our actual experiences,
to our lives as they are: a breeze passing your cheek, rain falling and soaking the earth
and trees, a stomach ache, the laughter of children playing seeing what you see,
feeling what you feel. Colours, forms, sights, sounds, touch, taste, smell, thoughts, all
coming and all going. Where do they come from and where do they go? Zen is entering into
things as they are, beyond concept and cosmology, beyond separation and duality, beyond
personality, and into the intimacy and richness of this whole moment. It is a radical
questioning into whatever arises as our experiences and true entry into the nature of
experiencing. Zen is the day to day and moment to moment practice of this moment.
It is the transmission of yourself to yourself in a Lineage of Teacher to student, face to
face. It is a mind-to-mind transmission that has spanned two thousand, six hundred years
from India to China to Japan to right here.
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