Word: zazen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tried zazen (meditation) during my visit," reports TIME Correspondent Eleanor Hoover. "At first the lotus position-the straight spine, the fingers pressed together, the lowered posture of the jaw-is not so bad. The cushions seem quaint instead of hard. After a little while, however, the sense of confinement sets in. Panic at the thought that there is no escape, that you simply must sit there just that way for 40 minutes, is well-nigh unbearable...
...acre valley surrounded by mountains of the Pacific Coastal Range, 40 long-robed youths were introduced last week to the mysteries of Zen. Under the direction of a roshi (teacher), they spent long hours in meditation on black zazen cushions, chanted incantations through meals of miso (soybean soup), carrots, onions, bokchoy salad and Tibetan barley bread, practiced Zen breathing exercises...