[MD] tiny skull

[Kevin Perez]

Hello SA.
 
Good to see your post.  You've been missed.
 
> Meditation is an event in which somebody is focused upon something.  
> Zazen is sitting that involves awareness and alertness.  Zazen is attention.
> So, while I'm meditating I'm attentive, thus, performing zazen, but in zazen it
> is attention, simple.  Zazen is not attention upon something in a steady
> practice upon a mantra in meditation for example.  Zazen is attention -
> plain and simple.
 
Zazen sounds like an "Everything Belongs" approach to prayer.  Pay attention.
Be present.  And that which had been hiding in plain sight become "visible."
I've heard it called a spirituality of subtraction, a la Meister Eckhart.  I've also
come to see that these practices are meaningless without a complementary
active involvment in personal relationships, community, the world, etc.  Sounds
like you've found the same thing.
 
Peace,
 

Kevin

 
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