zazen is good for nothing
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also zazen is useless · you can get nothing · you can't get anything · zazen gives you nothing · nothing to gain · what can you get from zazen · nič nezískate · nemôžete nič získať · zazen nič nedáva · zazen je k ničemu CZ
Summary
When people asked Kodo Sawaki what they could get from zazen, he replied: you can get nothing. Zazen is good for nothing, or useless, a very radical statement: there is nothing to gain, which is why zazen is losing rather than getting.
Part of ↑ zazen ↑ Kodo Sawaki ↑ aim
Includes ↓ practice that does not help others ↓ sitting as a waste of time
Main theme
what could they get from it. He replied “you can get nothing”
1Zazen According to Sawaki Summer 2004 — Yoko Luetchford
that very, very radical statement by Kodo Sawaki, Zazen is useless
2Dojo and Home, Sacred and Ordinary September 2015 — Banský Studenec
Mention
So even Kodo Sawaki said, You can't get anything
3Zen Without Spirituality September 2015 — Banský Studenec
Sawaki, who said, zazen is good for nothing. There is nothing to gain
4Buddhist State as Semi-Permeable Membrane September 2015 — Banský Studenec
What's the use of doing zazen? There's no use in doing zazen.
5Kodo Sawaki and Concrete Teaching August 2011 — Dibbavana