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View submission: Is Anapanasatti and Zazen the same practice?
Zazen is just sitting meditation, and can be *any one of a variety of practices*.
Breath counting or susokukan is a really common starting practice, and does in the traditional methods lead into mindfullness of breath. Whether that's through Zhihi and the Chinese sources, or even Theravada a la Buddhaghosa who teaches *the same method*.
Traditionally in Zen, that's just a starting method to help you solidify your samadhi enough to move on to shikantaza or koans using the wato method, though.
Which are the main ones we're known for. Shinkataza is most common in Soto and wato/koans are best known for their use in Rinzai, though there are Soto lineages that use koans too.
EDIT: Gave wrong translation.
Comment by Lethemyr at 02/12/2024 at 16:24 UTC
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Zazen (坐禅) doesn’t mean “just sitting.” It means “sitting Zen.”
Shikantaza (只管打坐) is “just sitting.”