How To Retie Moccains

The Mind of Bodhidharma

If you use your mind to study reality
not understand neither the mind nor the reality.

If you study reality without using the mind,
understand both.

Those who are capable of true vision

know that the mind is empty .

Bodhidharma (470-543)

28 ° Patriarch of Indian Buddhism

First Patriarch of Chinese Zen lineage

Bodhidharma transmitted

his Dharma in Mind China:

"When the Master directly indicates the Mind, discover that your Original Nature is no different from Buddha Nature."

Zen is the pronunciation of the Chinese character 禅 Japan. In the Western manuals when this character is transcribed into Latin characters to bring its Chinese pronunciation, following the pinyin method is referred to as Chan.

The path leading to the Zen satori, the enlightenment that leads to a higher level of consciousness. Satori and vacuum are two complementary concepts that support each other, and just from the concept of Zen emptiness is possible to understand the difference between the Nirvana of tradition Vedic and satori.

If the first is in fact basically the world as a renunciation and detachment from it, just as Schopenhauer's asceticism, satori is proposed active and conscious participation in the world and not an escape from it.

Zen prefer the activity to intellectual speculation and differs from other Buddhist schools for making the so-called central and essential practice in achieving satori. Among the practices Zen stands out in particular zazen, sitting meditation.

The term comes from "za", sitting and "Zen" and indicates its meditation meditate by sitting on a cushion said "zafu", accompanied by special hand positions and certain breathing rhythms, with the goal of bringing the mind to an absolute vacuum.