• Rinzai Zen Deutschland
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A vibrant community training in the Chozen-ji tradition of Rinzai Zen. We offer daily practice at Daikozen-ji in Madison, intensive training periods at the Spring Green Dojo, online zen training through the Virtual Dojo, and leadership training worldwide through our sister organization Institute for Zen Leadership. Introduction to Zen Training: A Physical Approach to Meditation and Mind-Body Training (The Classic Rinzai Zen Manual).

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Differences and similarities

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Zen is the Japanese version of Chinese Chan Buddhism. Thereare two main lineages of Zen Buddhism in Japan: Rinzai Zen and SotoZen. Both share a disregard for the original Vinaya rules for monks anda focus on sitting meditation (Zazen).

Koans and Zazen

Both Rinzai andSoto Zen Buddhists study koans and practice Zazen. The differences arein the relative importance in day-to-day practice. To sayRinzai 'stresses' koans over Zazen would be inaccurate.

It is accurate tosay that Soto Zen considers the practice of Zazen to be the sole meansof realization. But Soto Zen has never discarded the koan. Sototeachers lecture on koans and their students study koans outside thepractice of Zazen. Soto Zen practices Zazen as awakening itself to thealready realized koan. In Rinzai Zen practice, a koan is examined whilesitting in order to deepen insight.

Rinzai Zen waspopular in Japan amongst the Samurai, the warrior-class.

Marriage

In Buddhism Monks nor Nuns marry. In fact, they have to staycelibate and practice other rigid rules, many of which sound ratherstrained to the modern ear. (see PanchaSila for instance, which is only part of the rules for themonks and nuns, the Vinaya) In Japanese Buddhism though, in manylineages, the spiritual teachers do get married. Soto Zen and RinzaiZen both have married priests. In the West both have women priests aswell, though that's a Western innovation.

More Zen Buddhism

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• Onthe High Seat of 'The Treasure of the Law' The Sutra of the6th Patriarch, Hui Neng
• Fromthe Chinese Zen Masters, Bodhidharma on the twofold entrance to the Tao.D.T. Suzuki