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HASSETSU

(The Eight Stages of Kyudo)

CHAPTER 2

Breathing, Posture, and Concentration

Zen without realization of the body is empty speculation.

Omori Sogen Rotaishi

During my first week at Chozen-Ji, Tanouye Roshi gave a special lecture to the four of us who were live-in students. The topic of the lecture was the principles of zazen. It was then that I first heard the above quote of Omori Sogen Rotaishi. It is a fundamental reality of Zen and a corner stone of the philosophy of training at Chozen-Ji. The statement emphasizes that Zen is not just a philosophy or an intellectual system; Zen realization is physical as well as mental. This is a difficult concept for many Westerners, especially those exposed to Zen by books only. In fact, it is common for books on Zen to begin with caveats about overemphasizing the value of words. Unlike some of the other sects of Buddhism and other religions, Zen does not stress the study of written scriptures. Direct experience and action are the important things to the Zen student. The Zen student is not asked to accept to doctrine on faith. Rather, he is asked to train so that he might have personal experience of the Oneness of the Universe. The key to this experience is the discipline known as zazen. Zen training has no real significance without it.