Samu and Zazen

The Zen Center in Kyoto holds a zazen meeting for elementary and junior high school students on a school excursion. One of them was five high school students from Yokohama who wanted to help with cleaning. After zazen, they helped us for a couple of hours by cleaning outside and weeding the garden. They told us that was fun, then left the center. 

I remember that an elementary school in Saitama sent us 500 hand-sewn rags as a thank-you for our zazen. I think that making so many rags took a great deal of time.

Also I often receive thank-you letters such as, ‘My ears seem to have improved,’ and ‘I have never seen a lotus flower so beautiful until I experienced zazen. Thank you very much’. 

In the fall of 2004, I gave a zazen meeting for 16 Americans. After zazen, one of the participants, a big man, asked me a question. 

“I can hear many birds singing very well. I've never heard so many birds before. My hearing seems to be getting better. Why is that?”

I answered in this way.

"Because you did zazen quietly, you must have been able to hear better.“

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