Word: calms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Zazen, the act of meditation, is the most obvious characteristic of the Zen sect. It is not as initially calm and comfortable as monks make it look. Even the little pillows we squash under our squatting hinds can't alleviate the aches and numbness of 45 minutes of physical inactivity. Seigan, a monk from Brooklyn, NY, graced our buttbones with a special hint on how to fold the pillows just right, so that I could be content in my almost-Lotus position for a good 20 minutes before my sparkling clear concentration began to drift below...
...flower floating on the water--away on the inhale, back on the exhale--and, crowned by white Enlightened petals, the number of the breath. I actually cleared my mind of the deadlines and the thoughts that pressed to the forefront; Harvard-on-the-brain was left behind, and the calm breath floated to the fore. It was a moment of serenity...
...profess to have found the key to spiritual calm and the quintessential soul-searching experience in a weekend trip to the mountains. I know a fragment more about Buddhist philosophy. A few new yoga bends (asanas), maybe. A new way of life...
...easier to find an "inner calm" hundreds of miles from textbooks, tens of miles from towns with dots on maps. I was lucky enough to enjoy the beauty and the serenity of Dai Bosatsu Zendo. I went for a walk around the lake in a post-storm mist that hung like cobwebs in the air. It was as still as zazen. I imagined it in winter, the surrounding mountains a crown of white, the water solid and still. The Zen of Ice-skating? Sounds like...
...atmosphere in that home is "intense" now, he says, but the campaign itself is calm: more of a "movement" than a campaign, the effort is "a peaceful revolution," says Foster...