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坐禅 - A Wonderfully Useless Art - An Unnumbered Task

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Mat Hadfield
Jan 27, 2025
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Kōdō Sawaki (1880 – 1965) democratised the practice of Zazen among lay people. “When one does zazen, the whole universe is doing zazen.”

It is the very mind itself

That leads the mind astray;

Of the mi…

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