In its most common usage, the word intimacy hardly suggests a spiritual context. Enter the word in your browser, and you are likely to turn up references to the bedroom, the boudoir, and Britney Spears’ line of designer lingerie. Yet the root of intimate, from which intimacy derives, is the Latin intimus, which means “inmost.” And a desire for true intimacy–for connection with one’s inmost nature–is fundamental to many spiritual traditions, Zen Buddhism included. “Intimacy,” writes the Zen teacher Jakusho Kwong, “is at the heart of all of Zen.” (more…)
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162. True intimacy
Posted in 1, meditation, Zen, tagged awareness of breathing, Britney Spears, intimacy, Jakusho Kwong, mindfulness, Scott Russell Sanders, Shohaku Okumura, thich nhat hanh, zen, Zen Buddhism, zen meditation on 19 August 2015| 2 Comments »
One Time, One Meeting 