Gudo Nishijima teaches zazen

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Gudo Nishijima teaches the basics of zazen in this video.
This video includes some of Nishijima-roshi's classic quotes:
"Zazen is not thinking. Zazen is not feeling. Just keeping the spine straight vertically is zazen."
"Zazen is a kind of gymnastics without motion."
"Buddhism is philosophy of act, philosophy of reality. Buddhism is just realism."

And also the classic Sawaki-roshi quote:
"In zazen, we should keep the spine vertically straight upward as if the spine is piercing the ceiling."

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