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“ZEN IS NOT A PARTICULAR STATE BUT THE NORMAL STATE: SILENT, PEACEFUL, UNAGITATED.”

Zazen meditation is difficult. However, practising it on a daily basis is very effective for the expansion of consciousness and the development of intuition. Zazen not only releases great energies, but it is also and especially the attitude of revival. By practicing zazen, our brain can regain its normal and original state and returns to the cosmic order.

Sitting in zazen, you let the images, the thoughts and all the mental structures that emerge from the unconscious pass by like clouds in the sky - without resisting them, without clinging to them. Like shadows in front of a mirror, everything that emanates from the subconscious passes by, returns back and finally disintegrates. Thus one reaches the deep unconscious, which is without thought, beyond all thinking, true purity.

Zen education is strong and is aimed at people who are already strong. Zen is very simple and at the same time quite difficult to understand. It is a matter of effort and repetition - like life. If you sit - unceremoniously, without purpose and profit - your posture, breathing and mental attitude in harmony, then you understand the true Zen. Every day you practise, your mind changes.

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    You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.

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    Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated.

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    You have to practice until you die.

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    Human wisdom alone is not enough, it is not complete. Only universal truth can provide the highest wisdom. Take away the word Zen and put Truth or Order of the Universe in its place.

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    You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order.

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    Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?

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    To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant.

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Taisen Deshimaru - Expansion of consciousness

Taisen Deshimaru (1914-1982) grew up on the island of Kyushu in Japan. He was a disciple of Kodo Sawaki, who was one of the most influential Zen masters of the 20th century in Japan: He insisted on the importance of the practice of zazen and made the practice accessible to lay people.

Shortly before his death, Kodo Sawaki ordained Taisen Deshimaru as a monk and asked him to pass on the living Zen to the West. Taisen Deshimaru brought the essence of Zen to Europe in its original freshness. In Europe he found the ideal environment to spread a Zen which is rooted in everydays life.

It was his great concern to contribute to the crisis of our civilization by spreading the practice of Zen. He had a deep desire to help today's people and to lead them through zazen to a deeper understanding of themselves and their lives, whose imbalance he felt deeply.

Videos

  • Voix Bouddhistes Maître Deshimaru
  • Zen: Ici et Maintenant - Première partie (1971)
  • Un maître zen en Europe - Parte 2
  • Un maître zen en Europe - Parte 1
  • Master Taisen Deshimaru: Questions & Answers
  • "Le zen" - an old report with master Deshimaru
  • Mokudo Taisen Deshimaru - Bodhidharma of Modern Times
  • Zen:Partout et Toujours - deuxième partie (1971)
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