Zen Buddhism: Soto Zen
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- Created on: 28-05-18 20:36
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Zen Buddhism is also known as Farmer's Zen
- There is 'no need to seek enlightenment, just be enlightened'
- 'Zazen and enlightenment are one'
- Shikantaza - nothing but sitting
Without thinking
Dogen believed that it is meaningless to seek enlightenment as we are already enlightened, however, we do not allow our enlightened nature to manifest itself
- Meditation is the purest expression of our enlightened nature
- We already perceive everything exactly as the Buddha does - the difference is that we impose concepts onto everything that those things do not necessarily have
- To perceive things as a buddha does, we must practice 'without thinking' -…
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