ABSTRACT

The person who does Zazen of the less high type gives up everything and cuts all ties. Since, throughout the entire day, he is never idle, every moment of his life, every breath, is a meditation upon truth; as an alternative to this, he may concentrate on a koan with his eyes fixed in one place such as the tip of his nose. The person who does ordinary Zazen considers everything from all angles before freeing himself from good and evil karma: the mind expresses naturally the True Nature of all the Buddha's for the feet of man stand where the Buddha stands; thus are evil ways avoided. From Zazen, the precepts arise eternally, whether they are the five, the eight, the Great precepts of the Bodhisattvas, the precepts of the priesthood, the three thousand manners, the eighty thousand beliefs or the highest law of the Buddha's and ancestors; in all training, nothing whatsoever compares with Zazen.