How To Practise Zen In Daily Life

There are tons of videos like this. But this was the best in my opinion. Not too long, concrete, clear, simple with beautiful moving images. Very "Zen". Sadhu, Sadhu, Sadhu.

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Just do it.

Thank you we practice zen 🙏

Great video

Thank you!

I have found that doing zazen has helped me get out of the personal narrative and spend more time in my day just interacting in real time with people and things. It is so refreshing to let go of the script and just relate to my experiences as they happen. However I would be careful of ignoring your shadow side like the video mentions regarding the teaching of Carl Jung. Even top Zen priests and masters have had major downfalls by ignoring the shadow parts of their personality. We are a product of our cultural DNA just as we are products of our actual DNA - but zazen gives you an opportunity to process with your whole body and mind the emotions unquestioned perceptions and beliefs carried over from childhood. I think Zen in combination with seeing a good therapist is very helpful. Zen (the word) is a Japanese translation of the word Chan (chinese) which is a translation of the Indian word dhyana which means "meditate". "Zen Mind Beginners Mind" by Shunryu Suzuki is a good book for understanding Zen. Good luck with your journey!

Good video and good info here and there but, as a zen buddhist practitioner myself, I have to be honest: if you think the main question Zen is trying to answer is about who we really are, you missed the whole point !! You might be mixing mindfulness with Zen teachings...

You have room for improvement.

Having studied this philosophy ... I found it lacking in depth

Don't want to appear nitpicking but in Vietnam, Mahayana Buddhism is very much more popular than Theravada Buddhism. I am living in the country and practicing Zen meditation although from a different school. Other than that I really like the video

I would like to recorrect you sir
Buddhism was explore from 🇳🇵Nepal to whole over the world
sorry sir, not India to China

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Zen buddhism and Taoism have completely changed my life

We do not, however close our eyes while practicing zazen.

Reminds me a lot of uncle Iroh from Avatar the Last Airbender

I want this rn.

Truth

For further guidance on Zen Buddhist practice, listen to Alan Watts. Or The school of Serene reflection meditation. As Shasta ABBEY, California, USA. Rev Zen Master Jiyu. Now passed on. Left a valuable archive of talks.

It is easy for me to be calm and enjoy life. I live in country where I don't have to worry much. It is safe here. We have direct democracy, health care for everyone and a stable government. The air is fresh and the streets are clean. Education is almost free and if I lose my job my government will take care of me. But how can someone in a country who has not this insurance get to the point of Zen?

Those birds in the video sound exactly like my alarm clock I jumped 3 times to get my phone during this video 😂

In this video the main question is asked, 'Who am I?' I watched the American Buddhist monk's Monk in the Mountain series Parts 1 to 6. Towards the end of Part 6, he was asked the question, 'who are you?' To which replied, 'I've been searching for 45 years as a monk and couldn't find anybody, because there was never anybody here in the first place!'.

What is zen

Go for a bike ride around nature Without A CELLPHONE!!?!😎

Sorry Zen did not come from China. It came from India. The actual word is Dhyan which was pronounced as Chan in China and Zen in Japanese. The concept of dhyan or sitting meditation, letting go of attachment and enhancing mental condition goes back much earlier than the Buddha, Zen or Chinese culture. You can find people doing the sitting meditation 'zazen' in artifacts from the Indus Valley Civilization.

Excellent video. I live my life with Zen principles, realizing that means nothing. Realizing the greatest wisdom is to know you know nothing, therefore being present is the only way to exist.

What Zen often ignores however is the fact that in the Western World we don't have the pleasure to just live in the now all the time. We have to plan for our future. Things have changed, and that's why Alan Watts was so amazing bringing Zen into a western mindset.

Zen actually originated in India, its grew up in China but its flourished in Japan, based on a Zen book

This is one of the most detailed explanations for a person who doesnt know where to start exploring zen buddhism. I appreciate it

Does practice zen equal being passive? As they said, i observes things to the detail, like i dont know what it is then continue to approach it, every moment, jump from things to things. Its like describing thing to myself. But eventually i do nothing, just sitting or standing looking/hearing/smelling at it.

How can i live like that all day?
The only thing i get is at the end of the day i can remember vividly things i have approach (to its detail) but do nothing to it

the more i read about Zen the more i don't want any of it... as for peace, well, death is right next door , they say rest in peace ,don't they? a grave is the best place to find Satori

empty yourself of everything let the mind become still 🖤♾️

It is known as vipassna

There is nothing to practice, nowhere to go, no activity to engage us. Keep practicing with diligence!

Thanks for sharing 😀❤️I subscribed to your channel ❤

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Good.

Zen is for few people
Don't try this journey
You'll be confused. Who can succeed in zen? Only people that are
1. Pure, with great ethic values and merits 2. Strong attention 3. Strong will/perseverance
Otherwise start with (my suggestion):
Chi kung
Isha kriya
Mindfulness

As the great and current American Buddhist monk said in his Monk in the Mountain series, when asked about who we are. He mentioned that he'd been searching for his true self all his life and finally declared that 'there was never anybody here in the first place!'

Seems everything good in "Zen" except hitting on head, couple of years ago monk hit on my head , after my eyesight became weak.

Great video; powerful message, solid, enjoyable narration. Many thanks!!

This channel deserves way more views. Keep up the great videos.

If you meet the buddha, kill him has a meaning. From my opinion, i think it might mean that if you think you have become a buddha and are the wisest, you are not so wise. And you should keep being zen. Hard to grasp and explain

Meeting the Buddha and killing him? By definition a Buddha is already dead and passed into nirvana ie nothingness

Love your voice and the way you talk!

British have roots to all brutish asian cults.

Just See without adding a mental overlay on experience. Is your mind leaning? Beware of attaching to zazen as a method. You can practice zen in every moment.

Buddhism evolved from Nepal to India and then rest of the world. Correct yourselves, misleading information