Zazen

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File:Zazen au Centre Européen du Zen Rinzai.jpg
Zazen practice in a Rinzai school temple.

zazen (J. 座禅). Japanese term for "sitting meditation," known as zuochan in Chinese.

Zuochan (zazen) means "to sit cross-legged in meditation, usually either the full or half vajra posture, not giving rise to discriminatory thought, focusing the mind on a single meditative object."[1]

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