If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude - Suzuki Roshi -

Friday, March 2, 2007

Authentic Zen

Our experiment at Southcoast Zen Meditation Group:
"The process of Zen finding roots in Western soil is an ongoing one. Cultural, economic and psychological conditions are different in the West. One cannot become a practitioner of Zen just by imitating the way of eating, sitting, or dressing of Chinese or Japanese practitioners. Zen is life, Zen does not imitate. If Zen is to fully take root in the West, it must acquire a Western form, different from Oriental Zen"
- Thich Nhat Hanh in Zen Keys -



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