Zazen - Significance

Significance

Zazen is considered the heart of Zen Buddhist practice. The aim of zazen is just sitting, "opening the hand of thought", that is, suspending all judgmental thinking and letting words, ideas, images and thoughts pass by without getting involved in them.

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