The practice of Zen meditation in the lotus posture is earlier the historical Buddha, Sakyamuni Buddha, who lived in northern India in the V century before the Common Era. Shakyamuni taught the practice of ascetics or Sramanas . The Sramanas were seekers of truth who had given up social life and organized religion to indulge in various forms of insights favored by archaic techniques of ecstasy or mystic rapture. Although there were many techniques as Sramanas, meditation in the sitting position, torso upright and internalized attention enjoyed a widespread commitment and tradition of practice probably goes back to a time before the Aryan invasions and therefore the Hinduism. A clue to what I say is found in the same term sramana. Not sure of the origin and antiquity of the term. Experts agree that Sanskrit sramana led to the Chinese word scha-men (containing the verb scha 'know'). Schama would be 'wise', 'who knows'. The Chinese word gave rise to the term tungu saman, and this at the end of Manchu-tungu xaman , the Russians became shaman. The shaman was the central figure of the oldest religion of mankind, shamanism, whose origins date back to hunter-gatherers. In Japanese, the term appears as Shamoun, and refers to Buddhist monks who choose to practice away from the urban and institutionalized religion.
Sakyamuni taught meditation or dhyana Sramanas with different teachers, receiving from them knowledge and technical instructions that had been passed from generation to generation for thousands of years. Over six years, Gautama practiced dhyana and different techniques ascetic, fasting and mortification. Finally, he decided to just sit in meditation and improve their mastery of the different levels of dhyana. However, what really led to the ultimate experience of enlightenment were not only different degrees of dhyana, but a new discovery whose implementation would be critical to their completion: the use of dhyana states as platforms for lucid observation.
So there is a deep and close relationship between the archaic techniques of trance, like Eliade calls and the practice of meditation as technical means to access higher states of consciousness or expanded.
Dokusho Villaba (Utrecht, 1956) is the first Soto Zen master English history. Disciple of the Very Venerable Taisen Deshimaru Roshi, from whom he received Soto Zen monk ordination in 1978 in Paris and studied under whose direction the Zen until his death, and the Very Venerable Shuyu Narita Roshi, abbot of the Temple Todenji in the northern province of Akita, Japan, who in 1987 received Transmission Dharma.
After several years of practice, study Japanese in the main monasteries, the authorities of the Soto Zen Japanese recognize it as kaigaikyoshi, or teacher of Dharma.
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Wednesday, March 11 2009. 20:30 pm on
Off Limits. C / bracket, 11 (Madrid) see map
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