Zazen (group)

Zazen was a five-day Pune One non-residential meditation group led by Pradeepa and Gopal. The Community to Provoke God brochure had this to say as a brief description:

Zazen is a traditional zen meditation which, like Vipassana, involves long hours of silent sitting and slow walking. As the mind slows down and becomes quieter and quieter, each thought can be watched with awareness and the gaps between the thoughts become longer and longer.

Both the sitting and walking segments were shorter than in Vipassana, and the sitting involved open eyes, staring at a blank wall, your motionless neighbour offering no distraction from the process. At the end, a Japanese tea ceremony, complete with a group chant.

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