Shinjin Ichinyo: Body and Mind Are One

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In the West, you cut the body from the mind. The mind is up here, in the head, and the body is something the mind drags around. This is your great suffering. In zazen, you discover shinjin ichinyo: body and mind are one. The posture of the body is already the posture of the mind. When the spine is straight, the thought is straight. When the breath is deep, the consciousness is deep. There is no inner work to do separately—just take the right posture, and the rest follows.

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Taisen Deshimaru

Lineage: Sōtō

By Taisen Deshimaru

• Just Sitproverb
• The Cosmos in the Postureproverb
• Automatic Thinkingproverb
• Observe Your Own Mindproverb
• Mushotoku: Without Seeking Gainsaying

From Teachings of Taisen Deshimaru

• Just Sit
• The Cosmos in the Posture
• Automatic Thinking
• Observe Your Own Mind
• Mushotoku: Without Seeking Gain
• Hishiryo: Beyond Thinking
• The Posture Is the Teaching
• True Zen Is Useless
• Here, Now, Nothing Else
• Shikantaza: Only Sit

Sources

• contentThe Zen Way to the Martial Arts

  Taisen Deshimaru

  Kusen on shinjin ichinyo (body-mind unity), AZI dōjō transcripts and Zen and Martial Arts

  Teachings of Taisen Deshimaru: Shinjin Ichinyo: Body and Mind Are One