Zazen Meditation

• Important Note
• What Is Zazen Meditation?
• How To Do Zazen Meditation?

Important Note

Similar to "Transcendental Meditation" , Zazen primarily focuses on your thoughts - (primarily).

Let me point out what is wrong with this method.

Up until the mid-1900's, most "Monks" had no access to TV or Radio or Newspapers, and most may not have even wanted to have this access.

As such, their main focus and thus their main thoughts would have been contemplative thoughts based on "Scriptures".

This is vastly different to you and what you are exposed to on a daily basis, from the Internet, Radio, Movies, Newspapers, TV + general conversations and "Gossip" .

So if you are genuinely seeking potential enlightenment, please consider more advanced meditations like "Controlled Meditation" from the beginning.

You only have this lifetime of this level awareness and ask yourself why would you waste such a golden opportunity.

Here is a song from my childhood which explains why you should not be a "Unicorn"

What Is Zazen?

Zazen (座禅) is a type of Japanese Buddhist meditation which involves sitting quietly and focusing on your thoughts and feelings.

One of the key tenets of Zazen is to suspend judgement of others - which especially includes not being involved in verbal gossip or even gossip thoughts.

Many sources assert that Zazen and Zen are the same thing and that they both originated in the 5th century in India.

The problem with this is that Zen techniques and teachings are found in the very ancient BON religion which is purportedly at least 12,000 - 14,000 years before the age of New Bon.

Zazen meditation is similar but slightly different from "Contemplative Meditation" specifically focuses on actions you do each day and any consequences which you may initiate because of your actions (or inactions) or words.

Contemplative Meditation involves focusing on your thoughts and actions of each day and making yourself aware and accountable for any transgressions or sins you caused directly or indirectly.

How To Do Zazen

Sit in a comfortable position in a quiet place.

Start with a single mantra to focus your mind.

Consider any thoughts which may arise.

Basically, this is another name for "Transcendental Meditation".

If you are sitting on a chair, try and keep your feet flat on the floor or ground.

If you are sitting on the floor, sit as comfortably as possible and even utilize a small cushion (Zafu) if possible so that you are even more comfortable.

This (Zafu) cushion should have enough substance to support your full body weight so that you can sit in the "crouched kneeling" position. (sitting on your "haunches" or feet).

Alternatively, sit on the cushion and gently cross your legs in front of you keeping your spine as straight as possible.

Focus on your breathing and your mantra.

As you get thoughts is, consider them and then let them go and return to your mantra.

As I said above, this is very similar to Transcendental Meditation.

Pro ↟↟

This is "a" meditation technique ideally targeted at beginners.

It suits a lot of Westerners who lack discipline.

Con ↟↟

This technique lacks the potential for you to do advanced meditation techniques because it lacks discipline.

Consider This

You are here for a very limited amount of time, so why would you waste that precious time thinking or meditating on the color of your shoes or what one of your friends wore or ANY other completely useless and irrelevant piece of information?

Can you remember back to your hormonal days of mis-spent youth?

Think about how many days, weeks, months and years you spent thinking about genitalia?

One of my teachers asked me "what was my biggest waste of time this lifetime?

After a brief minute I replied, "I have spent over 30 years looking at women's asses and I have -Nothing- to show for it".

He replied, "Imagine how much further you would be spiritually if your focus was in the right place? You may have even reached your ascension point and completed this cycle".

SUMMARY ↟↟

If you want to do this meditation and you do not care about ascending your soul to get off this "level" planet, then this method is fine.

However:

In my own personal opinion, I would strongly suggest that you did not use this meditation method, but instead focused on a meditation technique - like "Controlled Meditation" - which gives you the "potential" opportunity to do higher levels of meditation as you progress.