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THE ZEN MIND - An Introduction by Empty Mind Films

2006

This is a clip from The Zen Mind documentary, filmed in Japan. It serves as a nice overview of zen - a topic very few people can fully understand.

03:29 min

Daily Life as Spiritual Exercise

In the Middle Ages people were well aware of the inexhaustible power that arises simply from sitting still. After that time, knowledge of the purifying power of stillness and its practice was, in the West, largely lost.

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Karlfried Graf Dürckheim
2015
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Zen and Us

“Zen enables us to do two things: first, to become one with our ‘true nature,’ in which the Absolute is present within us; and, second, to fulfill our human destiny by transforming ourselves and becoming a transparent medium, so that the Absolute within us can shine through.

Book
Karlfried Graf Dürckheim
1991
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Hara: The Vital Center of Man

When we speak of an individual’s state, we are actually referring to something that transcends the duality of body and soul, something that reflects the entirety of a person’s being.

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Karlfried Graf Dürckheim
2004
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Zen Buddhism