{"id":375,"date":"2010-11-06T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T09:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/11\/approaching-the-zen-mind\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:03:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:03:32","slug":"approaching-the-zen-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/11\/approaching-the-zen-mind.html","title":{"rendered":"Approaching the Zen Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/emptymindfilms.com\/films\/the-zen-mind\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">film<\/a> is a pretty good overview of the Japanese approach to Zen.<\/p>\n<p>Here you get a sense of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S%C5%8Dt%C5%8D\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Soto<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rinzai_school\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rinzai<\/a>. There are many other schools of Zen, of course, for instance <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kwan_Um_School_of_Zen\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diamond_Sangha\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/sweepingzen.com\/category\/articles\/schools-traditions\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>I suggest watching might be a good way to use an hour.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kcH69Ke3gs4?fs=1\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kcH69Ke3gs4?fs=1<\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Cpeo_uPAgmk?fs=1\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Cpeo_uPAgmk?fs=1<\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7W8IWr0Mg8E?fs=1\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7W8IWr0Mg8E?fs=1<\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3URsVSLAnuM?fs=1\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3URsVSLAnuM?fs=1<\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PyXNGMscB3w?fs=1\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PyXNGMscB3w?fs=1<\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f-CzLytQOYw?fs=1\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f-CzLytQOYw?fs=1<\/a>\n<p><i>thank you, Glenda, for the pointer!<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-6560647577084321206?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This film is a pretty good overview of the Japanese approach to Zen. Here you get a sense of Soto and Rinzai. There are many other schools of Zen, of course, for instance here or here or here.\u00a0 I suggest watching might be a good way to use an hour. \u00a0 thank you, Glenda, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Approaching the Zen Mind<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This film is a pretty good overview of the Japanese approach to Zen.Here you get a sense of Soto and Rinzai. 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