Zen Sôtô is one of the main schools of Japanese Buddhism. The word zen is a Japanese derivation of the Sanskrit word dhyana which can be translated as "Meditation". This School permit to popularise zen practical from frontiers of Japan to the occidental world. History tell us that during the way of existence through all the infernal states of ignorance, greed, and aversion, it is possible to increase the most believable and immuable source of peace.
Buddha, son of Rajah, was born more than 2600 years ago in a small village in northern India. His death conception permit to identify the passage of soul in the intangible reality of life in accordance with life on earth.
A new movement of buddhism appears in Japan in the accordance of an island presumed virgin of all corruption and privileging the attribution of wealth. Shōbōgenzō (正法眼蔵, lit. "Treasury of the True Dharma Eye") is the title most commonly used to refer about collection of works written in Japanese during the 13th century. The term shōbōgenzō can also be used as a synonym for the Buddha Dharma as viewed from the perspective of Mahayana Buddhism (大乗, daijō : the great vehicle) which expanded in the first millennium of the Christian era. This teachings used the triple gem of buddhism mahyana as the "vernacular", it permits to discover the Zen from the original teachings of the monk Goei : to see truth behind self (見真). as found in Rig Veda, the three refuges is an allegory to find peace state to perceive the all from nothing.
The Japanese founder of the Japanese Sōtō Zen school is Eihei Dōgen Sensei. He discover the pioneers of buddhism travelling is East Asia and decided during the 13th century to reform buddhism integrating the most popular stump of meditation more known as Chan.
Shortly before his death, Dōgen Sensei had written a death poem to expire the activate form of zen in his country :
- Fifty-four years lighting up the sky.
- A quivering leap smashes a billion worlds.
- Hah! Entire body looks for nothing.
- Living, I plunge into Yellow Springs
His contribution is fantastic. He permit to preserve the syncretism of buddhism with the poetic form of meditation to develop the Pure life as the pure land. So, Intagrating principles of Chan, he gives to Japan the key of the illumination with the teachings of Swami Boddhidharma, first importer of life liberation in the Shaolin temple in Zhenzoug mount with the Wu regent of China.
The Buddhism zen is the irrevocable form of integral buddhism as the same as principle form of Boddhidharma (the persan clear-eyed barbarian) who preconize to outstrip duality with mind-heart as the most popular language to preserve Dharma.
The Zen soto is equally the ask to development of Tendai school who insurge the buddhism revocating the laicism form to decrease the No-Dharma mappō (末法) . Afterward Master Kenzaï open access of Zen to serve more modest dimensions to prosper the ceremonial part of buddhism in all world in accordance with Cittamātra ( named too Vijñānavāda or Yogacara ) to develop the Zen in contrast with the Japanese devotion in all the world ending up in California in the 1950s and then in Europe.
The Zen Buddhism is a heart and mind devotion to separate the absolute form of Buddha as soon as is possible of the illusion of reality to transcend frontiers of death and to access at a birth in the real truth of beginning.
In China, it refers at Daoism with the legend of height immortals whose outpacing death with the language of Soma. It's a vision of wandering buddhism in osmose with natural forces named "pure land" (uncyclic formed cycles to illuminate the world : Samsara) .
"The transformations depend on the true nature of the substances. Their beginning and end have a common cause. The way to become immortal in drugs lies in the use of substances of similar category. " (Cantongqi, chap.126)
This mysterious key of life in the Eihei-ji manuscript or the "Secret", the Jokin's Esoteric Shobogenzo (秘密正法眼藏書 Himitsu-Shobogenzo) wose revealed the alchemy of zen:
"a lively word, a thought in action, a word that is act"
This exoteric form of buddhism, The Mikkyō (密教) (Tendai school) permit to give access to the principles of tantrism in the same aspects as Rishis, Rakan or Zenren (arhat) to preserve the exoteric form of buddhism in all aspects of combination with Yoga.
The sect Shingon is the most popular in Japan for this form of Syncretic life (Busho). With The 3 jewels are intacts, the 5 generals of art of life is the new governance in the concretism (absolute form as Tathagata according with 5 elements Gogyō 五行) , and The 8 immortals form (vedic form) a new era for Japan Buddhism and gives hope of existence of Dainichi 大日 : Life Force Who Illuminates the Universe. In conclusion, behind an open sourced Buddhism of Soto it exits the Tendai spirit to preserve the Dharma and develop laicism of practical of Zen.
The Zen Buddhism is a Neo-buddhism permitting to secularise the exoteric form of divination to syncretise a better world and love Dharma properties with the mind of Buddha. Silence.
Zen Meditation is practiced facing the side walls of the meditation hall, the zendō. The zazen sessions that last from forty to fifty minutes alternate with meditative steps to relax the legs without interrupting the calm and concentration of zazen. The oral teaching is given at the end or during zazen by a present teacher, or by the reading of a text.
