Kodo Sawaki

• Master Kodo Sawaki was born the fourth child in a family of factory worker

  Zazen According to Sawaki Summer 2004 — Yoko Luetchford

The most important texts

1. Kodo Sawaki and Concrete Teaching ●●● August 2011 — Dibbavana

   I thought this afternoon I would talk about Kodo Sawaki

   Kodo Sawaki · acting on your own · Kodo Sawaki's wartime remarks · right and left both wrong · severe view from a severe life · the world before thinking · zazen is good for nothing · sitting as a waste of time
2. Zazen According to Sawaki ●●● Summer 2004 — Yoko Luetchford

   Master Kodo Sawaki was born the fourth child in a family of factory worker

   Kodo Sawaki · created in Gautama Buddha’s image · fox zazen (yakozen) · old woman’s prostrations · practice that does not help others · refusing a temple of his own · water in pure sake · wavelength of the universe · zazen is good for nothing

Other texts

3. Dojo and Home, Sacred and Ordinary ●●● September 2015 — Banský Studenec

   that very, very radical statement by Kodo Sawaki, Zazen is useless

   zazen is good for nothing
4. Sadness Is a Change in Balance ●●● August 2011 — Dibbavana

   he realised they were still going down, although he felt they were going up

   lift in a coal mine
5. Just to Be Alive Is Enough ●●● August 2011 — Dibbavana

   So he very strongly criticised Japanese people's tendency to be group-minded

   Kodo Sawaki's criticism of group-mindedness
6. Zen Without Spirituality ●●● September 2015 — Banský Studenec

   So even Kodo Sawaki said, You can't get anything

   zazen is good for nothing · zazen like going to the toilet
7. Introduction to Buddhism and the Practice of Zazen ●●●

   He said that both idealism and materialism were wrong. He said that both left and right were wrong.

   Kodo Sawaki
8. Uji 1: Time Is the Present ●●● Winter 2004 — Uji

   Master Kodo Sawaki described it as walking like a duck

   kinhin like a duck
9. Sacred and Ordinary Together ●●● July 2009 — Brno

   Kodo Sawaki criticised it with his actions. He never had a temple. He kept away from temples

   Kodo Sawaki's criticism through action
10. The Empty Trappings of Transmission ●●● September 2009 — Earth Spirit

    one or two people, including Kodo Sawaki, who saw through the form and taught what it was really about

    seeing through the form
11. Freedom and the Teacher’s Character ●●● August 2011 — Dibbavana

    You will never be like that, because I was like that even before I started to practise zazen

    Sawaki's strength before zazen
12. Buddhist State as Semi-Permeable Membrane ●●● September 2015 — Banský Studenec

    Sawaki, who said, zazen is good for nothing. There is nothing to gain

    zazen is good for nothing
13. Buddhism and the Theory of No-Self ●●●

    Grasp the self, the ultimate in ourselves, the true ego - whatever you call it.

    grasping the true ego

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