Zen Flashcards
What is Zen?
Is a discipline of life and approach to live that gives a new viewpoint of existence
What is Satori?
A flash of enlightenment. Ability to transcend dualism and logic. Awakening
What are the characteristics of duality?
- Duality is the categorization of things into separate identity
- Seeing the world without duality is to see it in its purest form
- Tathata - “suchness”
What is the Zen Master?
A master of discipline and attainment (realizacion). Understands the discipline. Is something natural
What are the tools of the master?
- Koan
- Zazen
What is Koan?
- A paradoxical puzzle to confound logic
- There is no answer to a Koan, because the Koan is the answer
What is Zazen?
Seated meditation
What is the Zen Aesthetic?
Naturalness acting without affections and artificiality
Pure, direct and simple discipline of the mind
What are the differences On site calligraphy of the east and the west?
East- Slight
West - Precise
What does it mean a clean sensibility?
Less is more
- Zen gardens
- Basho haiku vs Shakespeare sonnet
What are the tools for the Tea ceremony?
Chakin Tea Bowl Tea Caddy Tea Scoop Tea Whisk Thea House/villa
What is the main characteristic of the Tea Ceremony?
Sounds of the ritual ceremony
What is chakin?
(Napkin) small linen used to wipe the bowl
What is the tea bowl?
Many sizes and styles
What is the tea caddy?
Small container that the tea is placed
