Jeff Shore on Zen practice - all into one

Jeff Shore lectures on Zen practice in Steyl, Holland, February 2007. 'Gather all into one. Pour yourself into it.' Shore is a professor of International Zen at Hanazono University, Kyoto. Since 1982, he has been training under Keido Fukushima, head abbott of Tofukuji monastery in that city.

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[findlaymcarthur]

AS YOU COUNT BREATHS I WILL COUNT FARTS

[zenonderdedom]

@findlaymcarthur Though the focus is on exhaling, inhaling should not be neglected. When you realise the same by farting it could be a strong practice.

[findlaymcarthur]

NEED WE WEAR DARK CLOTHES TO DO ZAZEN?

[shravana108]

Beautiful instruction!

Thanks!

[jcjamrock]

quieting the mind without force letting thoughts come and go realizing there is no coming and going because mind is empty. Simply returning to basic awareness before thought arises.

[Justletmeinyoursite]

Finally I found someone that DOES THIS.

I changed my meditation five years ago into this.

I think it just comes naturally to some, but I got tired of counting to ten-then to just four. I change it around SO much that just going to "1" seemed ideal.

[yadeyrinii]

Jeff Shore is the real deal. His lectures are outstanding, and his retreats are an incredible opportunity to deepen one's practice.

[Enographer]

In my Zazen I have always counted up to 10 in conjunction with my breathing, as I had been taught to do.

I tried his recommended method of simply counting to 1 as I each time I breathed out, and almost instantly could see an improvement.

Thanks for posting this.

[gakuryou]

Es ist ein Genuss, Jeff Shore zuzuhoeren. Seine Rede ist klar und einpraegsam. Jeder Zazen Übende wird ihm mit Gewinn immer wieder gebannt lauschen. Er uebermittelt wertvolle Orientierung fuer die Praxis. Unbedingt ihm im zweiten Video "not a state of mind" zuhören.