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Koan

The Rinzai practice of the case-study. Mu. What is your original face. The question that breaks dualistic thought.

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A Zen teacher seated in zazen meditation posture

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Zen

The meditation school that strips Mahayana to its experiential core: a special transmission outside the scriptures, not founded on words and letters; pointing directly at the human mind, seeing into one's own nature, attaining buddhahood.

Sengai Gibon's "Universe" — the classic Zen ink painting of a square, triangle, and circle

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Buddha-Nature in Zen

The Zen reading of tathagatagarbha — that one's own nature is already buddha, that practice does not produce awakening but uncovers what was never absent. The teaching at the heart of Dogen's Shobogenzo and the foundation of the Rinzai koan tradition.

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