6-Religion-Religions-Buddhism-Sects-Zen Buddhism

zen

Zen Buddhism {dhyana} {zen} says that there are many different yogas.

meditation

People can learn to suspend physical and mental responses, such as judgment and analysis, to stimuli. Zazen open meditation is consciousness without response.

no dogma

In Japan, Buddhism has no dogma but emphasizes realizing inner being through meditation and discipline.

school

Buddhism in Japan has Rinzai School.

Zen arts

Zen arts are tea ceremony, flute playing, archery, fencing, ju-jitsu, and brush drawing.

dhyana in Zen Buddhism

In yoga of pure Self-contemplation {dhyana, Zen}, mind concentrates on one thing.

kensho

Understanding or enlightenment can come in altered consciousness states {kensho}.

koan

Philosophical puzzles {koan} about life can have no solution, show that truth changes depending on perspective, or show that there is no truth. "That which can be taken away from you is not worth keeping, and that which cannot be taken away from you, why should you be afraid of its being taken away?" Osho Zen Tarot. "Who am I?" "What is this?"

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