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The Lamp of Zazen

By Shunryu Suzuki

The point of zazen, says Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, is to live each moment in complete combustion, like a clean-burning kerosene lamp. In this talk at the Tassajara sesshin in the summer of 1969, the great Zen master explains Dogen’s teaching on practicing within imperfection and warns against the arrogance of the false self.

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Through the practice of meditation, there are certain changes that happen in the mind. One of the most important changes is that you become master of your mind.

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