... , and into the intimacy and richness of this whole moment."" (Deshimaru, p6) Zen is the day to day and moment to moment method of focusing on the moment. It has spanned two thousand, six hundred years from India to China to Japan to right here. Zen is a philosophy ... original teachers of Zen, Shakyamuni Buddha said to his students one day in a talk that has been recorded as the Satipatthana sutta, the Discourse on Mindfulness, that, "There is but one way to liberation and that is mindfulness. Mindfulness is paying attention with the entire body and mind ... back 2,500 years. The purpos...

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