Quote: "Shut up and sit.

And keep your eyes open and your back straight. "
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Especially if you are doing walking zazen, but not if you are doing lying zazen.  Standing zazen optional.

The other day I was doing meeting zazen.  In this case, you keep your eyes on the speaker at all times, and let your mind go blank.  A slight smile is good too.  They really think youre paying attention.  ha ha.

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If you were really doing meeting zazen, then you would have been paying attention. :-)
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*doing zazen* is a contradiction in terms.  Zazen is not-doing.

I wasnt paying attention.  Aside from smiling slightly, so as to have endorphins going on an autonomic level, I wasnt doing anything.  I wasnt listening to the words passing me by, they just went by, or watching the scene as it unfolded before me, it just unfolded, etc,

You poor fool.  You still think zazen is doing something, trapped in a loop of cause and effect duality.  Even paying attention is too much to do.  Just be, thats all, just be.

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This poor fool listens in meetings, speaks when he's spoken to, eats when he's hungry, and sleeps when he's tired. When the body sits, the body sits. When the mind sits, the mind sits. In attention, nothing passes by.

So, you want to fall asleep in meetings, or while driving, or while sitting, go right ahead. Asleep is not awake.
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