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ZEN

2007-06-06 10:52:40

ZEN

Zen practices include many of the most menial tasks of households. The temples

often give the lower class or newer monks the easier tasks, like washing the

dishes and the higher class monks the harder more mind numbing tasks, like

raking a rock garden or sweeping a veranda. The Zen monks taught that in every

menial task there is something to be learned and something that the student can

later meditate on. Even the abbot performs such tasks as sweeping the floor.

The Zen monks believe you can gather knowledge from all things in life, and

that in your every action you shape and mold yourself in but the smallest of

ways, but when you truly become enlightened all of these details will have

played the most definite role.