One of the pillars of Zen is the love of nature. Zen professes an extraordinary respect for everything natural.
[MUSIC] love for nature in zen [MUSIC] one of the pillars of zen is the love for nature and the nature and the japanese culture rooted in the principles of zen professes the same extraordinary respect extraordinary respect for all natural wabi sabi
love for flowers in general and cherry blossoms in cherry blossoms in particular is very rooted in the zen culture of japan the beauty of the imperfection of the imperfection of the natural and the mundane of the wounded or unstructured of the essential that that is the true love that zen transmits under the concept of wabi sabi nothing is complete nothing is perfect and nothing lasts forever [Sound] Japanese tradition has always been characterized characterized by giving a great value to those things, objects or simple and mundane anecdotes and mundane anecdotes that the rest of the planet considers of no value or that simply do not do not pay them the attention they deserve from the everydayness of drinking a cup of tea the Japanese have created one of the most ritualistic most beautiful and delicate in the world, an art, an extreme extreme connection between a cup and the spirit and nature in its greatest expression of that's what beauty is about from the eyes of the zen the most beautiful is always before your eyes it depends on whether you know how to look or you don't know how to look [Sound] surrounded by stimuli devoid of essence of dead and soulless nature it is difficult to connect with the true beauty of the world of the mind of the earth the zen te invites the reconnection of our spirit with nature and what is truly nature with what is truly beautiful not with what is we refer only to the landscapes, the seas, the mountains or the mountains or the forests but to the subtle connection with the nature that surrounds us the nature of of the things of the acts of the feelings of everything
what it implies to be natural and to be in connection with that which is not essential in our eyes to profess love in any of the acts we do is a symptom of symptom of connection with our nature with the the most intimate of our senses we only have to flow we don't have to let ourselves feel and everything will emanate from within there are no thoughts there is no dogma we just have to be one with nature and beauty will spring up by itself [Sound] beauty is found in every single gesture we have to know how to see with the eyes of the soul as zen says, stripping ourselves of material things seeing only the essence of the natural [Sound] once upon a time in coysicagua there was a woman prisoner who was destined to be executed before spring she was very fond of spending fond of spending long periods of time looking through the window where there was a cherry tree her death sentence was pronounced she asked for to let him see the cherry tree blossom before leaving this earth forever to which his jailer agreed with following him her last wish, it is said that the woman found the death thus in her happiest spirit and the tree began to be known began to be known by its name to satsuma
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What is Zen?
Benefits of Zen meditation practice
The Tea ceremony - Chado -
The Koans
Art and Zen - Sumi E -
Zen anecdotes
Martial arts
The love of nature in Zen
Zen and its influence on the art of Japan