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Zen Evolution Through Daily Living
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The talk examines the unfolding of Zen practice, emphasizing that while Zen appears not to have defined stages, individual practice evolves through daily life activities. It highlights the unpredictability and impermanence of the world, suggesting that Zen practice manifests and develops naturally in the actions and interactions of daily life, both in personal and communal contexts.
- Uncertainty and Impermanence: The talk stresses that the unpredictable nature of the world means stages of Zen practice cannot be predetermined, reflecting Buddhist teachings on impermanence.
- Zen Practice and Daily Life: It describes monastic practice as an engagement with daily life akin to that of a layperson, suggesting personal evolution through regular interactions and responsibilities as the loom of practice.
- Intentionality and Inner Spirit: Emphasizes the importance of intentionality in daily actions as part of the practice, connecting personal mindfulness with broader Zen principles.
AI Suggested Title: Zen Evolution Through Daily Living
Zen practice is an apprenticeship in which we unfold the stages of practice individually and together. One of the characteristics of Zen, in some contrast to other Buddhist schools of practice, is that it doesn't seem to have stages, which is important to notice. And yet, of course, how could it not have stages? But since the world is unpredictable, impermanent and unpredictable, how can we predict the stages?
[01:05]
So the stages, whatever stages there will be, will unfold in your life on the loom of daily life, on the loom of learning. weaving your life, weaving your life on the loom of daily activity. So one reason Zen practice, monastic practice, is about daily life, almost as if you were a lay person and having to support yourself and so forth, But there's a daily activity which is the loom of learning, the loom on which you notice your practice, your state of mind. And it's on this loom of daily life
[02:19]
that your practice evolves. So exactly how we do things and how we do things with others and how we do things with our own inner spirit, intentionality, is again the loom of practice for Zen adepts. Your breathing in the world is your breathing of the world.
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