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244 - Zazen as a Religious Act
Episode 244

244 - Zazen as a Religious Act

The Zen Studies Podcast

July 17, 202330m 42s

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Show Notes

Seated Zen meditation – zazen – is less like the meditative practices of many other spiritual traditions, and more like prayer in theistic traditions. This is not because we believe in God (although we might), but because zazen can be seen as a "religious" act – if we define religion in one of the ways philosopher William James offered, as "our total response to life."