just with to begin by sharing with you, the practice that do, nearly all the time during session Shikantaza, just sitting just open awareness. I never did it for years and years. And I did breath counting and labeling and koan practice. But Shikantaza in a sense is, if I could say that, the purest form of zen meditation that you could do because it's such a direct experience of reality, of moment-to-moment reality. And the other forms of meditation all have their benefit. And as you know, I really encourage people to start with breath counting and to do labeling and to do koan practice.
But with those other practices like with breath counting, as valuable as it is, it's a preliminary practice to focus the mind, there's a linear sense of achieving something. You've got a structure and and you're aim to keep counting the numbers and stay on focus.
The Scribly Gun Sutra
by Geoff Dawson, April 19, 2024 Ordinary Mind School of Sydney
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