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<\/p>\n <\/p>\n S<\/span>esshin (<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u63a5\u5fc3<\/span><\/span>) <\/span><\/span>literally \u201cgathering the mind\u201d or \u201ccollecting the mind,\u201d is the word for an intensive period of practice.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Common translations include \u201cto unify\u201d or \u201cto touch\u201d or even \u201cto correct\u201d the mind. The last rendition, correcting the mind, comes from mishearing how a Japanese person might say the \u201cl\u201d sound. \u201cTouching the mind\u201d is too stretchy for my translation tastes as the character doesn\u2019t seem to have anything to do with touching. What would touch the mind that was not mind? To \u201cunify the mind\u201d follows the meaning of \u201cSe\u201d in terms of joining or welding but unifying might suggest a melding into a oneness that excludes diversity. I prefer \u201ccollecting the mind.\u201d The suggestion that mind collects mind expresses the experience that is common in sesshin when the great all-embracing perfection comes forward as oatmeal or coffee. It\u2019s like the <\/span>Genjokoan<\/span><\/span>\u2018s <\/span><\/span>\u201cTo exert and verify myriad dharmas by car\u00adrying forth the self is illusion; to exert and ver\u00adify the self while myriad dharmas come forth is enlightenment\u201d (translation, Hee Jin Kim).<\/span><\/span> That\u2019s what the weekend will be doing with us here at<\/span><\/span> Yugeji, Transforming through Play Temple.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Warm regards during the coldest week of the Minnesota year.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Sesshin (\u63a5\u5fc3) literally \u201cgathering the mind\u201d or \u201ccollecting the mind,\u201d is the word for an intensive period of practice. Common translations include \u201cto unify\u201d or \u201cto touch\u201d or even \u201cto correct\u201d the mind. The last rendition, correcting the mind, comes from mishearing how a Japanese person might say the \u201cl\u201d sound. \u201cTouching the mind\u201d is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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