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\"\"Bowing<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

By Zen Master Wu Kwang
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Zen Master Seung Sahn says in the Temple rules, \u201cWe bow to see True nature and help others.\u201d My point of view is that to see bowing only as something transplanted from Asian culture is to miss its deep and profound meaning, and that bowing expresses the essence or core of our practice.\u00a0 When we bow at that moment we put down and let go of our limiting ideas of self and touch base with openness.\u00a0 This is the realm of \u201cDon\u2019t Know.\u201d At the moment we let go of ideas of the self, we also let go of limiting ideas of \u201cthe other.\u201d\u00a0 As relates to the formal Kong-an interview at the moment of bowing, there is no separate sense of student, teacher and teaching. When these ideas are let go of, the True intimacy of real relationship is possible.\u00a0 Sometimes the student learns from the teacher, sometimes the teacher learns from the encounter with the student.\u00a0 Sometimes both Teacher and student appreciate the teaching together.\u00a0 When we get a taste of this in formal interviews we also begin to perceive Zen Master Lin Chi\u2019s advice, \u201cYour True Teacher is always just in front of you.\u201d\u00a0 We then receive teaching from our daily lives, moment by moment as we internally bow to our circumstances and experience.\u00a0 Bowing to the teacher is just a physical enactment of this basic attitude of practice.<\/span><\/p>\n

Additionally, when we bow to the teacher we are expressing gratitude for receiving teaching and for the teacher\u2019s dedication to long years of practice and devotion to the Zen way.\u00a0 We also express our appreciation and respect for the Tradition and lineage of teaching.\u00a0 For these reasons and perhaps many more, we feel that we should continue with this practice.<\/span><\/p>\n

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