How to Meditate Exactly like a Rinzai Zen Monk!

How to sit like a Zen monk? 3 tips!!

1) Don't Try!
2) Don't Try...WITH ENERGY!!
3) Think Non-Thinking

When doing Zazen meditation, we have a job. Take the posture and just sit. If we could do more, I'm sure we would! We would turn the awareness/focus/samadhi dial up to ten and bask in satori! The reality though is that these things are out of our control. The good news is that the pressure is off of us to "sit well." We sit down, serve the posture and breath, and see what happens. Meanwhile, the contemporary Zen master Shodo Harada Roshi, in a commentary on Dogen, talks about how to "think non-thinking" when you are meditating, which is key to relaxing into posture and breath and not get lost in thought.

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00:00: Start
1:02 Brief Comic Interlude
5:20 Don't Try!!
10:17 Zen Master Zazen Form
16:29 Thinking Non-Thinking Is Key
26:10 Don't Try...WITH ENERGY