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Instruction on Sesshin Practice
Teachings of Harada Daiun Sogaku
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During sesshin you must throw yourself entirely into practice. Forget about the outside world. Forget about your daily concerns. Each period of zazen is a matter of life and death. When you sit, sit as though your life depends on it—because it does. When you walk in kinhin, walk with the same intensity. Eat, sleep, and breathe with this one purpose: to break through the barrier of the self. If you practice sesshin in this way, even for seven days, transformation is inevitable.
Attribution
By Harada Daiun Sogaku
From Teachings of Harada Daiun Sogaku
Sources
Teachings of Harada Daiun Sogaku: Instruction on Sesshin Practice