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I can't tell the difference between Shikantaza and Silent Illumination.

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Is the experience of suchness and the Tao the same?

I understand what you're getting at now. In Soto Zen tradition rebirth is understood to occur moment-by-moment. To use an example, 10 years ago 'I' was essentially a different being; even the molecular components that make me up now have changed. Since in emptiness there is no defining quality that...

There are still precepts that one must practice with, like a raft, but eventually they become second-nature and the raft may be put behind. Soto Zen also acknowledges actions have consequences. The accumulation and effects of these are what's referred to Karma in Zen. There are precepts and there i...

A misconception about zazen is that zazen is meditation. In meditation, such as in the theravadin and Tibetan tradition, one contemplates shapes, and visualizations ect. But in zazen, we aren't doing such things. Steadying the mind on the breath in the tanden region, we empty our mind of it's conte...

I am a Soto Zen practitioner, and I believe this stuff is not important to the practice. Rather, living in the moment and dropping the subject/object dichotomy in all activities takes priority. Whether rebirth is true or not has little to no impact on my life at the moment; if it were either true o...

I am a Soto Zen practitioner, and I believe this stuff is not important to the practice. Rather, living in the moment and dropping the subject/object dichotomy in all activities takes priority. Whether rebirth is true or not has little to no impact on my life at the moment; if it were either true or...