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	Zazen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shikantaza is usually associated with the Soto or “gradual” school, and koan practice with the Rinzai or “sudden” school.
		Shikantaza is objectless meditation, in which the practitioner does not use any specific object of meditation, but uses the power developed in concentration to remain completely aware of all phenomena that arises and passes in the present moment.
		Koan introspection and shikantaza are more likened to the vipassana (insight) practice in Theravada, but are sometimes considered to be a condensation of vipassana and samatha into a single practice.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zazen (1040 words)

	Shikantaza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shikantaza is often referred to as the method of no method.
		While other forms of meditation often have quite clear instructions - such as focusing on the breathing process - shikantaza is held to make use of pure consciousness or mindfulness.
		Shikantaza is practiced from this point of view.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shikantaza (854 words)

	Shikantaza
		Dogen favored shikantaza as his primary practice and his adoption of it is definitely related to the reasons why he felt he had to “return” to China in order to gain true insight into Zen practice.
		When we speak of zazen in terms of shikantaza, and when we say things like the "innate oneness of mind and environment," we should not understand that zazen is a method of psychic concentration or of an effort to still one's mind.
		Shikantaza is not an attempt to get rid of all delusions, fantasies, or thoughts that come into our heads during zazen as if they are something separate from us.
	www.senshincenter.com /pages/writs/budocon/shikantaza.html (815 words)

	DHARMA MEMPHIS - SHIKANTAZA - JUST SITTING
		Some of these concentration practices are in the background of the shikantaza practice tradition, or have been included with shikantaza in its actual lived experience by practitioners.
		The specific practice experience of shikantaza was first articulate in the Soto lineage (Caodong in Chinese) by the Chinese master Hongzhi Zhengjue (1091-1157); Wanshi Shogaku in Japanese), and further elaborated by the Japanese Soto founder Eihei Dogen (1200-1253).
		Shikantaza is the practice of doing each activity in our life for the sake of that activity, regardless of whether we are sitting, lying, walking, or standing, or working.
	www.dharmamemphis.com /meditation/SHIKANTAZA.htm (1307 words)

	Shikantaza
		SHIKANTAZA, or "just sitting," is alert nonselective attention which neither pursues nor suppresses thoughts, sensations, etc., but, rather, gives alert detached attention to whatever arises in and vanishes from consciousness.
		Distinctive of Dogen’s account of Zazen as Shikantaza is that Zazen is conceived not as a means to an end but as a practice of the end itself.
		And though upon his return to Japan Dogen wrote at length about Shikantaza and recommended it for his inner band of disciples, it must not be forgotten that these disciples were dedicated truth-seekers for whom Koans were an unnecessary encouragement to sustained practice.
	www.angelfire.com /electronic/awakening101/shikantaza.html (2615 words)

	Courses
		So for a period of time each day, try to sit in shikantaza, without moving, without expecting anything, as if you were in your last moment.
		Complete shikantaza may be difficult because of the pain in your legs when you are sitting cross-legged.
		If we know how to practice shikantaza, and if they know how to repeat Amida Buddha's name, it cannot be different.
	www.ashokaedu.net /explore/calmnessofmind.htm (839 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Koan & Shikantaza
		Shikantaza and koan are two seemingly different practices.
		We can say that shikantaza is doing zazen as the manifestation of your life as the Buddha Way, as the Buddha dharma itself.
		The best way to repay our debt to our buddha ancestors is to do true shikantaza and manifest our life as the realization of koan, or manifest koan as the realization of our life.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/index.php?showtopic=2932 (1794 words)

	Meditation and Zazen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One form is a deeply focused type of meditation, usually directed toward a Zen koan, a focus commonly called "samadhi." This samadhi produces a calm that pervades the whole body and mind and allows one's natural insight to reveal itself.
		The central practice of Soto Zen is "shikantaza" which means "just sitting." It is a form of meditation that is characterized by an alertly wakeful attention, yet it is not directed at any specific object.
		Along of koan practice and shikantaza, beginning students of TTZC are also trained in mindfulness practices.
	www.ttzc.org /descriptions/zazen.html (115 words)

	ZCLA Dharma Talks - Your Zazen is the Zazen of the Buddhas
		When you do shikantaza, have faith in the fact that your zazen is the same zazen as the zazen of the Buddhas and Patriarchs.
		Let that shikantaza be the zazen of the Buddha.
		When you sit shikantaza, you don't know what to do with this discriminating or discursive mind.
	www.zencenter.org /texts/zazen_buddhas.htm (829 words)

	EAS Workouts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Shikantaza is a specific breathing procedure borrowed from Soto Zen.
		Using Shikantaza, the athlete becomes wordlessly focused, internally and externally silent.
		A smart person can perform the Shikantaza procedure and follow up with a few rounds of auto-visualization without a single other person in the immediate vicinity being aware of the incredible internal transformation taking place.
	www.eas.com /training/trainingTips.asp?cmsId=579 (1824 words)

	talks
		Shikantaza is the actualization or the practice or the expression of your true nature which is emptiness.
		It’s not with your self-centered mind; as-it- is, Shikantaza, emptiness, the thing in itself, the Zazen sitting itself, for the sake of itself, the thing in itself.
		When we receive a letter from the world of emptiness, then the practice of Shikantaza is working.
	www.smzc.net /pages/talks.html (3634 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Shikantaza
		Shikantaza, which is sometimes called "just sitting," involves watching without judgment as thoughts come and go and watching without judgment as thoughts do not come and go.
		All Buddhist schools with a meditation tradition have Shikantaza as a practice, they just don’t call it that.
		It is the highest form of meditation in all schools of Buddhism it is emptiness manifested, it is oneness with the universe it is the hardest type of meditation to do!!! Maybe Tibetan Lama’s have even talked about this.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/index.php?showtopic=2230 (2236 words)

	Lecture on Acceptance
		Shikantaza is another word for zazen, and I think of it as the whole-hearted practice of just sitting, while fully engaging in the actuality of our being as it arises moment by moment.
		He said in silent illumination, "You just sit with the awareness that you are sitting....The silent aspect is achieved when wandering thoughts no longer trouble you." Notice that he doesn’t say when wandering thoughts stop, but they no longer trouble you.
		I have found that self acceptance is the basis for shikantaza, and that accepting things as they are is the basis for just sitting.
	www.intrex.net /chzg/pat32.htm (1695 words)

	The Art of Just Sitting book review
		While it is true that some Zen masters were critical of shikantaza as being passive or quietist, both Rinzai and Soto use shikantaza as part of their practice, just as both use koans in their studies.
		Also included is an interesting introduction on the history of shikantaza by Dan Leighton, former head monk of Suzuki's Tassajara who now teaches at the San Francisco Zen Center and Green Gulch Retreat Center.
		The practice of shikantaza may be more suited to those who have managed to still the mind through breath counting or some other method of concentration or focus which enables the practitioner to become settled in mind.
	www.thezensite.com /ZenBookReviews/ArtofJustSitting.htm (854 words)

	Dharma Gleanings - Prairie Mountain Zendo, Longmont-Fort Collins, Colorado (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He described shikantaza as a very special kind of practice in which you sit zazen so hard the sweat pours out of your body.
		But the shikantaza, or the "just doing," is the selfless activity of just doing within the dream.
		When we say, "This is what he was like," we mean that his shikantaza was right there for all of us to experience.
	www.prairiemountain.org /dharmagleanings.html (735 words)

	Henry Thoreau Zen Sanga
		But also the HTZS sees itself as part of a broader mission to foster a vital community, where one may be fully engaged within the questions of ordinary life; single, partnered, or raising a family.
		The two primary spiritual disciplines cultivated within the Henry Thoreau Zen Sangha are shikantaza and koan study.
		Shikantaza quite literally means, "just sitting." Also known as silent illumination, the great Soto Zen master Eihei Dogen tells us in his classic Fukanzanzengi, this practice "is not a step-by-step path.
	www.fusn.org /pages/zen.html (893 words)

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		I will then engage in 15 minutes of shikantaza meditation, prior to walking each day, for the next 7 days.
		If I decide to withdraw from the study, or if I am terminated from the study before it is completed, its possible I may be asked to complete the study at a later time.
		RISKS: The possible risks and/or discomforts associated with the procedures described in this study are: muscular soreness from sitting on the floor while engaging in meditation, dizziness upon arising from the floor, and/or loss of self-confidence from poor performance in using the shikantaza method.
	www.msu.edu /course/sw/840/snapshot.afs/class/expres/2001su/assgt/assgt05/5wellbor.doc (639 words)

	Shikantaza
		In Zen they have a practice which they call shikantaza.
		In shikantaza we just sit down and rest in pure awareness.
		Shikantaza captures this, because it has no goal, nowhere to go, nothing to achieve or accomplish, no activity of any kind, not even the slightest technique to support it.
	www.mayyoubehappy.com /thisverin.html (741 words)

	SkyDancer — Mindfulness?
		In Samatha meditation, you focus the mind on an object; the purpose of this is to teach the mind to concentrate.
		In Zen's Shikantaza (what many people mean when they use the term "zazen"), there is no object of meditation, nothing you intend to pay attention to.
		It's necessary in order to practice the others, but they are the principal tools for the awakening that the Gautama was talking about when he called himself "Buddha" —; which means, one who is awake.
	www.loudzen.com /skydancer/faq/qmindfulness.html (381 words)

	Shambhala Sun - Koan and Shikantaza: Escaping the Trap of Delusion
		Koan and Shikantaza: Escaping the Trap of Delusion
		But I was taught that shikantaza is something different.
		Koan and Shikantaza: Escaping the Trap of Delusion, Jan Chozen Bays, Shambhala Sun, March 2004.
	www.shambhalasun.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1485 (823 words)

	Not by Ourselves
		Shikantaza demands our full self-expression, says Tenshin Reb Anderson, and this can only be realized when we meet intimately with others.
		For the past two hundred years in Japanese Soto Zen, the understanding of most teachers has been that shikantaza, literally translated as “just sitting,” was Dogen Zenji’s essential practice.
		A great deal of his teaching was intended to help us understand what it means to practice just sitting in its true sense.
	www.thebuddhadharma.com /issues/2005/fall/not_by_ourselves.html (2934 words)

	Formless Meditation
		Shikantaza is thoroughgoing, total attention to everything, a tremendously powerful practice.
		I practiced shikantaza, but they did not speak about using any form such as the susokukan method as a support.
		Even though there is a branch of Soto that uses koan practice, the main stem of Soto Zen is the shikantaza practice of seamless sitting.
	www.buddhanet.net /budsas/ebud/ebmed083.htm (5529 words)

	FightingArts.com - Meditation: Just Do It!
		These other methods are all different from "shikantaza" (Japanese for "just sitting") in that they provide for an object of attention.
		In shikantaza there is no object of attention.
		In shikantaza the emphasis in the explanation of the method of practice is placed on what you don't do.
	www.fightingarts.com /reading/article.php?id=342 (1129 words)

	Amazon.com: Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen: Books: Shunryu Suzuki,Edward Espe Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Dharma is, variously, truth, or your vocation in life, or the teachings of Prince Siddhartha Gautama, known as the Buddha, or the enlightened one.
		Shikantaza, "just sitting," is associated with the Soto school --- although Shunryu Suzuki would have rejected any denominational or sectarian identification.
		In a sense, both anthologies are expositions of shikantaza.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060957549?v=glance (2424 words)

	jamesbickers.com
		Whitemoth is the name under which I compose ambient, new age and electronic music.
		Shikantaza is the first recording that I am making available, and it is yours at no charge.
		It was designed as a guided meditation - a 24-hour day telescoped into 30 minutes - and I hope it brings you some pleasure.
	www.jamesbickers.com /shikantaza.html (186 words)

	Zazen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As such, shikantaza - Zen that does not seek Buddha-hood or non-doing Zen - and koan - satori-orientated or complete effort-Zen - can be regarded as completely opposite.
		In conclusion and summary, I would however first like to modify my broad statement of above that “Buddhism is a true or universal religion because it shows a way of life, and of salvation, for everybody, regardless of their secular values and without class distinction”.
		In conclusion I would like to say that both, shikantaza and koan meditations, can be combined; for the author of this paper, they are both yusui, which in Japanese means “deep (insight) and quiet (calm)”.
	www.za-zen.net /zazen.html (3412 words)

	Dharma Discourse: Yaoshan's Non-Thinking by John Daido Loori Roshi
		Unfortunately, for many years after shikantaza became identified exclusively with the Soto school, while koans were thought to be used only by the Rinzai school of Zen.
		But when I mention breakthrough, all the shikantaza people say, "When am I going to see it?" Shikantaza can’t be measured the same way, but this doesn’t mean that one technique is better than the other.
		One of Dogen’s fascicles concerned with shikantaza is titled "Zazenshin." It is usually translated as "Admonishments for Zazen", but Carl Bielefeldt translated it as "Lancet of Seated Meditation", which is a beautiful image for shikantaza.
	www.mro.org /zmm/teachings/daido/teisho20.php (3252 words)

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