Zen
What is Zen?
- Zen is...
- What can zen teach you? -mu
- What is the god of zen? -mu
- What are the hold books of zen? -mu
- What happens to the soul in zen? -mu
- Zen is a discipline that gives a new viewpoint of existence
- Satori - A flash of Enlightenment
- The ability to transcend the duality of the world
- Duality is the categorization of things into separate
identity
- Seeing the world without duality is to see it in its
purest form
- Tathata - "Suchness"
The Zen Master
- A master of discipline and attainment
- Tools of the master
- Koan
- A paradoxical puzzle to confound logic
- There is no answer to a koan, because the koan is
the answer
- Zazen - Seated meditation
- Ridicule and abuse as techniques of teaching to overcome
one's duality
The Zen Aesthetic
- Naturalness - acting without affectations and artificiality
- Art of calligraphy (video)
- Pure, direct and simple discipline of the mind
- A clean sensibility - Less
is more
- Tea Ceremony (video)
- Chakin - Small linen used to wipe the bowl
- Tea Bowl - Many sizes and styles
- Tea Caddy - Small container the tea is placed
- Tea Scoop - Bamboo ladle to remove the tea from the caddy
- Tea Whisk - To infuse the tea into the water
- Tea House/villa
- Designed solely for the presentation of the ceremony
Humanities
Resource of Mark Hunter