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Zen Buddhism

John Kaldawi was inspired by Zen Buddhism which is at the heart of the Japanese culture as the school of Mahayana Buddhism.  It is a practice that is transmitted directly from a master to a disciple.  It is also called ZaZen, Za for sitting and Zen for meditating, and is also called the journey of self discovery.  It is the experience of living from moment to moment, in the here and the now.  It is the attitude of spiritual awakening which is also the source of all actions of daily life flow like eating, breathing, sleeping, working, walking, thinking, etc...

Doing more research, John learned that Zen is not a theory, or an idea or knowledge, not a moral teaching, and does not require one to believe in anything, but rather a practical experience.  One cannot intellectually learn Zen because the mind in limited.  It is a spiritual path that does not tell people what to believe, but Zen lead them to basically not to think.


John Kaldawi also learned that in Zen, one is to sit quietly, stop moving, and let go of the thoughts.  Just focus on breathing, and let the unconscious mind melt away and merge with the Universal self.  Zen is another method of attainment of the higher self.

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