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roger1952.bsky.social
Zazen. Japan. Zazen is a type of meditation unique to Zen Buddhism that functions at the heart of the practice, Zen is the Japanese word for meditation, so Zen Buddhists could be called “Meditation Buddhists.”
November 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
abbeyarletto.bsky.social
Not sure you understand what Zen is? Zazen meditation emphasizes direct experience, not selective experience. Your feature seems to promote selective experience. Zen seeks enlightenment via insight into the nature of mind and reality. But your feature seems to hide both mind and reality.
October 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
bodhidave.bsky.social
Reviewing slides for a talk on the art of the Zen teacher Hakuin I'll give in a few weeks, I'm currently struck by this one.

Kannon is the bodhisattva of compassion — she who hears and responds to the cries of the world. And Hakuin suggests that when we experience awakening, everything is Kannon.
An ink drawing of Kannon, titled "Willow Kannon," she sits in meditation seated on a shore or a little cliff overlooking some water. An calligraphic inscription on the drawing is a quotation from a hymn, and reads, "Regarding with compassionate eyes all sentient beings And accumulating good fortune like an ocean without limit.” Test to accompany the drawing reads: Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion sits in Zen meditation, her legs crossed and eyes slightly opened in accordance with zazen. Her face is suffused with kindness. The willow to her right evokes both her strength and flexibility in warding off danger and removing illness. a quotation from Hakuin reads: Kannon signifies the ideas of vision and hearing, combining the characters for “see” (観 [“view]”) and “sound” (音). Kannon is the one who perceives and hears the sounds and prayers of all sentient beings. All these can be summarized in our Zen teaching about the sound of one hand. If you understand that meaning, then you are truly awake, and if you are truly awake, the whole world is Kannon.
September 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM
tesorosdelbudismo.bsky.social
¿Puede darme más calma ésta imagen?
Un mudra sin forzar, sin tensión.
Que tengáis buen fin de semana.
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Dos manos doradas de una estatua de Buda con un gesto de estar una encima de otra.
January 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
londonerabroad.bsky.social
Just Become A Swinging Door
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Just Become A Swinging Door, by Shunryu Suzuki
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April 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
laurenjane.bsky.social
My current #YearOfKindness reads are 2 fold because I'm finally getting back into my practice after a year and half away. I have been sitting zazen for over 10 years but stopped abruptly last January.
Two bucks resting on a plush gray couldn't cushion the first book beyond thinking a guide to Zen meditation is by Zen Master dogan edited by Kazukai Tanahashi, The second book 'ordinary wonder Zen life and practice' is by Charlotte joko Beck. It was edited by Brenda Beck Hess.
July 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
ewkrzen.bsky.social
One reason sitting meditation has nothing to do with Zen is that there are no recorded cases of enlightenments occurring because of meditation.

Zazen/Shikantaza prayer-meditation was invented in 1200 in Japan and was never a Chinese Zen practice.
January 3, 2024 at 3:19 PM
buddhistdoor.bsky.social
Buddhist Quote for Today: Hozan Alan Senauke

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Buddhist Quote for Today: In any single breath each of us can become an enlightening being. In the next breath we might fall into old habits of thoughtlessness and violence. Zazen reveals that this choice is always with us. — Hozan Alan Senauke See more: buddhistdoor.net
November 1, 2024 at 2:44 AM
shojiwax.bsky.social
Sitting morning zazen.

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Not wasting time.
Morning zazen.
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August 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
zendeshimaru.bsky.social
À travers le #zazen, découvrez l'harmonie du corps et de l'esprit 🌿. Chaque geste devient samadhi, une vraie élégance dans le quotidien.
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L’harmonie du corps et de l’esprit : le pouvoir du zazen
January 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
colonialgirl.bsky.social
I did a lot of Zazen meditation in my Iaido & Aikido days.
In my view, if you want to pick up a sword, practice Zen Buddhism 👍
May 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM
zendeshimaru.bsky.social
🧘‍♂️ Posture Zazen : bien plus qu’une simple position — c’est une voie d’ancrage, de calme et d’éveil.
Explorez l’enseignement profond de Maître Dôgen :
👉 zen-montpellier.fr/podcast/post...

#Zazen #BouddhismeZen #Méditation #Dogen #PostureZen
Découvrez la posture zazen et son pouvoir d’ancrage, de concentration et d’éveil, selon les enseignements de Maître Dôgen.
May 8, 2025 at 7:45 AM
sword-of-wisdom.bsky.social
Zazen ~ Is about sitting an open nakedness and Absolute serenity
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May 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
bodhidave.bsky.social
Yes. "Zazen" literally means "seated meditation" (that "za" is in "zafu" = sitting cushion; and "zabuton" = sitting mattress ["futon"]).

The characters in "shikantaza" literally translate to something like "nothing but do sitting," and are usually rendered "just sitting," associated with Sōtō Zen.
a black round zafu on top of a black square zabuton on the floor
March 4, 2024 at 4:57 PM
hollowboneszen.bsky.social
Every April, we host a free single day retreat in memory of our founder, Jun Po Roshi. We hope you'll join us this year to sit zazen on April 19!

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March 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
ewkrzen.bsky.social
I'm trying this OpenVibe app.

I started these accounts to talk about Zen in daily life, but most of my time is debunking 8fP Buddhism and Zazen, which are both incompatible with Zen.

Zen is the 4 Statements, not 8fp and not Zazen prayer-meditation.
April 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
zenmousegreg.bsky.social
Here's a humorous, non-serious idea I had for "helping" people maintain correct posture for zazen. Behold - the Bodhisattvatron (TM)! It's better than being beaten with a kyosaku, but not by much. Remember, folks - a bell is a bodhisattva! #Zen #Buddhism
Outline sketches of a front view and side view of a human head, on a piece of paper titled "Bodhisattvatron (TM)", with the slogan "A bell is a bodhisattva" beneath. The sketches show cylindrical metal bell shapes hanging from the person's earlobes, with metal spikes mounted on their shoulders so that the spikes are within the bell shapes, but do not touch them as long as the person keeps their head upright, in the canonical posture for seated meditation. To the side of each sketch is an electrical circuit diagram which shows that the bell shapes and the spikes form switches, so that if the person does not maintain the canonical meditation posture and the spikes touch the bells, then the circuit is closed and a buzzer will sound: in this way, the person is alerted that their posture has deviated from the canonical one.
August 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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February 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
zendeshimaru.bsky.social
Maîtriser la posture de zazen : conseils pour une assise parfaite
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Basculez le bassin, plantez les genoux, étirez la nuque, rentrez le menton. Avec un bon zafu, relâchez pour mieux vous ancrer. 🧘‍♂️

#Zazen #Méditation #PostureZen #MaîtreKosen
January 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
poligraf.bsky.social
« Is not to meditate to deepen oneself in order ? »

― Paul Valéry

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Is not to meditate to deepen oneself in order ? — Paul Valéry
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December 17, 2024 at 8:40 PM
eduwyn.bsky.social
#Nishida’s early writings were shaped by his own spiritual experiences. He spent time practicing Zen meditation (zazen), which emphasizes clearing the mind of conceptual thought and simply being present in the moment.
March 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
buddhistdoor.bsky.social
Buddhist Quote for Today: Sodō Yokoyama (1907–1980)

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Buddhist Quote for Today: My teacher, the late Sawaki Roshi, often made the following self-evaluation: “I am an eternally deluded person. No one is as deluded as I am. I am deluded with gold trimmings. How clear it is 
to me when I do zazen!” — Sodō Yokoyama (1907–1980) See more: buddhistdoor.net
January 27, 2025 at 3:01 AM