zen

 Japanese often find beauty in quiet things. It is called wabi sabi. "wabi " means  "looks simple ". It is came from verb "wabu". "sabi" represent the state that don't have a person.
It is came from verb "sabu". In zen, wabi sabi is empathized. So, There is the essence of Japanese aesthetics in zen. Here, I would like to write about Zen.


（in Wikipedia   Zen is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the 6th century as Chán. From China, Zen spread south to Vietnam, to Korea and east to Japan. The word Zen is derived from the Japanese pronunciation of the Middle Chinese word 禪 (dʑjen) (Modern Mandarin: Chán), which in turn is derived from the Sanskrit word dhyāna, which can be approximately translated as "absorption" or "meditative state".

 Zen emphasizes the attainment of enlightenment and the personal expression of direct insight in the Buddhist teachings. As such, it emphasizes mere knowledge of sutras and doctrine and favors direct understanding through zazen and interaction with an accomplished teacher. 

 Zen is famous for meditation training method. It is called zazen, zazen takes place in not too hot, not too cold, setting up breath pace and backing and turning your back to the wall. There is two way of folding legs. It is called 結跏趺坐（kekkafuza）　or 半跏趺坐（hankafuza）  
The way of the kekkafuza is placing the right foot on the left thigh and the left foot on the right thigh next, closing right heel to the belly. On the other hand, in hankafuza,only the left foot place on the right thigh. The hands form as mark 法界定印 (hokkai zyouin）.The way of it is facing up right palm and piling the left palm on right one. And, The tip of thumbs faintly combine each other. Eye halfway open and gaze at under 1m away. Pulling the chin, mouth and tongue tied lightly until it just touches the base of the front teeth. Keeping your back straight, pulling hip,facing nose and navel, the man protrudes his belly slightly. Breathing　leave naturaly. Sucking slowly from the abdomen, the man discharged from the abdomen. It is show that slowly breathing has been observed in zazen. Zazen takes about 45 minutes - 1 hour.( It is the time a incense is burned)  it is called "一炷" (ikka). It is unit of training. And,
 It is said that ascetic’s posture stoop if he disturbs concentration.Supervisor who is called tyokudo patrol behind a person who performs zazen in the temple, and if there is person who has collapsed posture, supervisor gives warning by striking the shoulder.


 Japanese as  I've written on this blog before, feel the aesthetics to discipline. There is also this aesthetics in zen.  I remember that even when I went on a trip to Kyoto before, I felt the beauty  because Kyoto was such neat disciplined. You can said that essential of beauty of Kyoto is hidden in zen. I suggest that the blog users perform zazen in Kyoto, and feel the beauty of Kyoto. 



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