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VIII - 2. Buddha 3. Zen

I threw myself into this story, I'll have to finish it and trying not to bore my readers too well that sometimes it bothers me a bit to tell my life, I must admit. I am tempted to rush a little but the events would be rather ungrateful neglect the steps organized with infinite patience by the Lord to bring her unworthy servant at home.

So I'll still take courage: Vajrayana was too exotic indeed. Yet I have not totally ruled out since the Tibetan schools later, thinking he had found a practical non-dual Absolute provides diversification skillful practices to "become a Buddha in this life with this body" [Sokushin-Jôbutsu], as we preach in the esoteric school Japanese Shingon , I was introduced to the practice of Dzogchen (in school Chögyal Namkhai Norbu)

who wants beyond all schools of Tantrism and I turned - without me invest otherwise than bookish - around the Bön above any contribution from India and n has not ceased to exist in Tibet, despite the "imperialism" of Buddhism.

Meditation then my concern and I turned to Zen (禅) Soto was most represented at the time - indeed the only - while other schools now Zen (Rinzai giving the lot importance Koans to [paradoxical injunctions], which includes Korean Son in excess of Zazen practice common to other schools such as prostrations, mantras etc.. Sambo Kyodan school etc..) have their instructors (Sensei) and even their masters and dojos in France and other European countries.

In the Soto school of Zen which was introduced in France in the sixties by Deshimaru disciple of Kodo Sawaki (see his moving biography by clicking image)

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and found throughout Europe now takes precedence over all sitting naked:

zazen (座 禅) .

was what I needed.

This is just sit in the posture (lotus, half lotus posture or Burma) one in which Sakyamuni, the historical Buddha, met the Awakening, or tense posture, or released, without visualization, without a fight but without fueling thoughts, without search of effect (such relaxation or concentration or breath before the action) and certainly not profit seeking Realization, Satori, let alone meet the Buddha ("If you meet the Buddha, hit it!" Is it taught. It's very physical: keep your back straight, chin, pushing her head toward the sky, knees pressing the ground, focused on breathing with a long expiration and inspiration successor naturally attentive to tensions or sloppiness. Just sit shikantaza 只管 打坐 Master Dogen said.

More trivially or more roughly "Sit down and shut up "said one instructor Japanese-American former rock musician. Incidentally some roughness is not necessarily the opposite of compassion but is also a form, I will never forget that moment when, dismissing the affectations of political correctness which is simply the secularized Christian culture without God. Practice
simple and uncluttered but rich in lessons. Zazen is not just a physical posture that invites you to calm the excited, or requires the sleepy to stay awake, it is both a metaphor of life as the Zen and life itself. Considered by the school as teaching in line with the Buddha 2500 years ago and passed on from master to disciple, Zen Buddhism became the Ch'an its introduction in China by the 28th Patriarch Bodhidharma and Zen in Japan by Dogen in the 13th century whose texts have become the foundation of this school. So I played again with my whole being, body and spirit, morning (sometimes even lunch) and dinner only on my zafu (meditation cushion, round, black, customized stuffed with kapok) as is done in School Soto facing a wall. And of course I participated in sesshins (pensions) Temple Gendronnière since it is in the context of the AZI I practiced. This practice has been for me a wonderful school asceticism, dignity, commitment, faith, courage, perseverance, patience. Rituals demanding, beautiful and perfectly sober me then agreed and although aesthetically very Japanese could be found in this school as a recount was open to the universal and therefore suitable for a French, more than the expansion and the colorful Tibetan culture.
As for the "theory" developed in both the collection of lessons that Dogen condensed in the sutra of the heart he has helped to clear up in my mind so that the apophaticism Orthodox theology has been very unsettling for the future.

All beings are Buddha since the beginning of time, like water and ice, without water no ice, outside us no Buddhas. So close is the truth, although we were going to fetch away. Surrounded by water, we cry, "I am very thirsty! "Born Rich, poor as we wander, making tirelessly around the six worlds. Our grief is caused by the ego misleading. Trail trail, we grope in the dark. How to free ourselves from the wheel of samsara? The door to freedom is samadhi procured through zazen. Beyond the excitement, then by the praise, is the pure Mahayana. The precepts, repentance, the gift, the right path of life, the countless meritorious deeds, all this has its origin in zazen. Samadhi authentic disperses all evil, and it purifies us from karma, removes obstacles. Where are now the dark paths on which we lose our way? The country is close to Pure Lotus. Hearing this truth, heart humble and grateful, singing his praises and kiss, to practice its wisdom, is a source of unlimited benefits, mountains of merit. But if removed by ourselves, we prove our true nature - that real being is devoid of ego that our self is not an ego - the ego is transcended and clever words are behind us. Then the drive door opens noisily. There is neither two nor three straight short Voie.Notre the form has become non-form, we can come and go without ever leaving home. Our thinking has become non-thinking, our dances and songs express the Dharma. Immense, infinite is the sky of Samadhi! Bright and transparent the moonlight of wisdom! There in the world, something we would he defect? The immensity of nirvana unfolds before our eyes. The earth we tread is called Pure Lotus, and our body is the body of Buddha.

Hymn of Praise for Zazen, by Hakuin Ekaku (1685 - 1768 )