Today’s favourite poses: Down Dog, Pigeon, Tiger, Child's Pose
Minutes with a relatively quiet mind: Zilch so far
Today’s interesting/thought provoking reading: (Taken from Wikipedia - Zen)
Zen asserts, as do other schools in Mahāyāna Buddhism, that all sentient beings have Buddha-nature, the universal nature of transcendent wisdom, and emphasizes that Buddha-nature is nothing other than the essential nature of the mind itself. The aim of Zen practice is to discover this Buddha-nature within each person, through meditation and practice of the Buddha's teachings. The ultimate goal of this is to become a Completely Enlightened Buddha
What the Zen tradition emphasizes is that enlightenment of the Buddha came not through intellectual reasoning, but rather through self-realization in Dharma practice and meditation. Therefore, it is held that it is primarily through Dharma practice and meditation that others may attain enlightenment and become buddhas as well.
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